The EU regulates Gazprom Not long after the 2009 gas dispute, the EU began to push back on Putin's fossil dominance with a series of regulatory and judicial actions that reduced Russia's leverage in oil and gas sales to Europe. The EU's Third Energy Package aimed to reduce corruption and build a framework for climate policy. One rule, known as "unbundling"-- forbidding the same company to have a monopoly over both energy infrastructure and fuel--directly targeted Gazprom. This came to a head with dawn anti-trust raids in September 2011 on Gazprom's (and affiliates') offices in 10 EU countries. Gazprom was charged with unfair practices of demanding higher prices from vulnerable countries (eg. Bulgaria, the Baltic states and Poland) compared to rates in the wider EU market. Potential fines were set at EUR10 billion. After this, several EU countries invested in new gas infrastructure to reduce reliance on Gazprom.