KIEV, June 24 – The regulation of prices of Ukrainian-extracted natural gas sold by state-run companies, which the government proposed recently, is not in line with the European Union Gas and Electricity Directives, an expert has claimed.

"It’s an absolutely non-market approach, for there to be a price for imported gas and a separate price for domestically extracted natural gas. The European Union Gas and Electricity Directives do not foresee such things, and the methods used for calculation of the price should be the same," said the director of energy programs at the NOMOS center, Mykhailo Honchar, commenting the draft law on principles of the functioning of the natural gas market recently submitted by the government to Parliameny.