The controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, set to deliver Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea, still has a way to go before it can begin operating, the head of the Federal Network Agency has warned. The Russian owner Gazprom set up a German-based subsidiary to meet legal requirements for the pipeline, but agency president Jochen Homann told the FAZ broadsheet that “further steps are missing” before it can be added to the commercial register. Considering outstanding assessments, “a conclusion will unlikely be possible in the first half of the year,” Homann said in the interview, which is t…