page_title: South Stream
hierarchical_section_title: South Stream
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of South Stream gas pipeline. The route is displayed according to [1]. Someone should probably take care of displaying Kosovo and Abkhazia correctly.
context_page_description: South Stream was a pipeline project to transport natural gas of the Russian Federation through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and through Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia further to Austria.
  Coincidentally with Russia's annexation of Crimea, after having been seven years in the talks and works with five EU member states, the project was suddenly found in non-compliance with European Union's competition and energy legislation, in particular the Third Energy Package, which stipulates the separation of companies' generation and sale operations from their transmission networks.
  It was seen as rival to the Nabucco pipeline project, which was abandoned in favor of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline. Unlike South Stream, TAP is fully compliant with EU legislation by way of having obtained EU Third Party Access Exemption.
  Construction of the Russian onshore facilities for the South Stream pipeline started in December 2012. The project was cancelled by Russia in December 2014 following obstacles from Bulgaria and the EU, the 2014 Crimean crisis, and the imposition of European sanctions on Russia. The project has been replaced by proposals of Turkish Stream and Tesla pipeline.
context_section_description: South Stream (Russian: Южный поток, Yuzhnyy potok; Bulgarian: Южен поток, Yuzhen potok; Serbian: Јужни ток / Južni tok; Slovene: Južni tok; Hungarian: Déli Áramlat; Italian: Flusso Meridionale) was a pipeline project to transport natural gas of the Russian Federation through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and through Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia further to Austria. 
  Coincidentally with Russia's annexation of Crimea, after having been seven years in the talks and works with five EU member states, the project was suddenly found in non-compliance with European Union's competition and energy legislation, in particular the Third Energy Package, which stipulates the separation of companies' generation and sale operations from their transmission networks.
  It was seen as rival to the Nabucco pipeline project, which was abandoned in favor of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.  Unlike South Stream, TAP is fully compliant with EU legislation by way of having obtained EU Third Party Access Exemption.
  Construction of the Russian onshore facilities for the South Stream pipeline started in December 2012.  The project was cancelled by Russia in December 2014 following obstacles from Bulgaria and the EU, the 2014 Crimean crisis, and the imposition of European sanctions on Russia.  The project has been replaced by proposals of Turkish Stream and Tesla pipeline.
caption: Proposed route of South Stream
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