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Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2)

My hon. Friend makes an important point. There will always be a large number of bilateral and sometimes multilateral agreements within not just Europe's market, but the global energy market. That is the nature of the contracts and relationships between different companies and different countries, but the response to the concerns that my hon. Friend and many others have expressed about Gazprom, which I share, is that the Commission itself, using its treaty powers, will be able to investigate whether Gazprom is abusing its market position in an anti-competitive way.