* Any buying cooperation to be left to market * New law to focus on regional security planning The European Commission has decided not to include plans for centralized natural gas buying in its revised draft EU gas supply security regulation, which is expected to be proposed on February 10, a senior EC official said Wednesday. “We would not put in place a central purchasing agency, for instance, or a centralized system,” Stefan Moser, head of the EC energy department’s supply security unit, told an event on gas security hosted by Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. “We’d rather leave it to the market to cooperate to the extent that this is in line with EU competition rules,” he said. Article continues below… European Gas Daily is a flagship Platts publication that delivers crucial competitive intelligence across the entire European gas marketplace. It keeps you ahead of critical price changes and […]