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Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said that, after signing the shareholder agreement with MOL, the Serbian side has completed its part of the NIS talks. She said Gazprom Neft and MOL now need to agree on the sale, with an outcome acceptable to the US Treasury's OFAC.
On June 16, the Energy Ministry and MOL signed a shareholder agreement on the future management of NIS: it takes effect only if MOL reaches a deal with Gazprom Neft to buy 56.15 percent of NIS and receives OFAC approval. The same day, Aleksandar Vucic said from Tbilisi that, based on information he was receiving from Washington, NIS's operating license may be extended for another 15 days.
Serbia's government has again extended the temporary reduction in excise duties on petroleum products, this time through June 21: until then the excise is 61.24 dinars per liter for leaded gasoline, 57.6 dinars for unleaded gasoline, and 59.23 dinars for gas oils.
On June 13, 021, citing RTS, carried Jelica Putnikovic's assessment that the nearest critical deadline for NIS is Tuesday, June 16, when the existing licenses expire. Even after the Serbia-MOL arrangement, the outcome depends on OFAC consent, concrete contracts, possible governance changes, and guarantees for keeping the Pancevo refinery operating.
From 15:00 on June 12, a liter of eurodiesel in Serbia costs RSD 220 and a liter of gasoline costs RSD 194; both prices are RSD 2 lower than last week and apply until next Friday, June 19. For drivers, this is the weekly service price that filling stations must apply immediately after publication on the Ministry of Internal and Foreign Trade website.
On June 12, Forbes/N1 examined Ranko Mimovic's company, which Reuters had named on May 6 as a possible buyer of NIS for EUR 2 billion: KFT Senator Treasury G.T.7 Dva had its account blocked six times in half a year at the initiative of the Tax Administration. The article adds another risk to the long-running NIS story: alongside the MOL, Gazprom Neft, and OFAC track, the realism of alternative Serbian ownership bids remains in question.
