(ANSAmed) - BRUSSELS - An agreement related to the Nabucco gas pipeline will be signed between Turkey and countries touched by the pipeline on July 13. Brussels made the announcement, including Nabucco in the list of strategic plans to boost gas supplies to EU countries, a reason for which the project is also benefitting from a European subsidy worth some 200 million euros. The spokesperson for EU Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, explained that on July 13 Ankara will play host to an intergovernmental conference that will lead to the signature of the agreement. The EU Commissioner is expected to be there too. The spokesperson added that the agreement will provide ''a legal framework for use of the Nabucco pipeline.''' The pipeline should decrease the EU's dependency on Russian gas by channelling some 30 billion cubic metres of gas per year from central Asia to Europe. The plan to make the Nabucco pipeline was stepped up in the wake of the summit between countries of the so-called southern corridor that was held in Prague May 8, when the EU was told by Turkey's president, Abdullah Gul, that it accepted the agreement. However at that point most of the Caspian countries (Turkmenistan, Kazakhistan and Uzbekistan) criticised the plan. But now that deadlock is possibly broken even if, in the past days, at the end of a meeting with Turkey's minister for energy and natural resources, Taner Yildiz, Russian deputy prime minister, Igor Secin, invited Turkey to cooperate in the Italy-Russia gas pipeline project South Stream, in competition with Nabucco. (ANSAmed).