On January 20, 2025, the Dispute Settlement and Sanctions Committee (CoRDiS) of the French energy regulatory authority (CRE) imposed a €4m ($4.2m) fine on Equinor ASA and an €8m ($8.4m) fine on its trading arm Danske Commodities A/S for manipulating annual capacity auctions at the virtual interconnection point between France and
Equinor and Danske Commodities fined €12m for gas market manipulation

The firms were sanctioned for breach of European regulation on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency – REMIT.
