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2011/0091(NLE) Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking: funding

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead ITRE REUL Herbert (icon: PPE PPE)
Committee Opinion ENVI
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
TFEU 188 -a1

Events

2011/11/19
   Final act published in Official Journal
Details

PURPOSE: to amend Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking to facilitate financial and in-kind contributions.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation (EU) No 1183/2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.

BACKGROUND: the fuel cells and hydrogen joint technology initiative is a public-private partnership supporting research, development and demonstration activities in fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies in Europe. Its aim is to accelerate the market introduction of these technologies realising their potential as a vector in a carbon-lean energy system. To implement the initiative, the founding members set up a joint undertaking in May 2008 for the period up to 2017 with the objective of pooling resources from public and private sources. The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (the ‘FCH Joint Undertaking’) was set up under Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 by its founding members, the European Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative Industry Grouping Aisbl (the ‘Industry Grouping’) and the Commission. The Research Grouping became a member of the FCH Joint Undertaking on 14 July 2008 and contributes both financially and in kind to the objectives of the FCH Joint Undertaking. Since the members of the Research Grouping may benefit from the results achieved by the FCH JU in the same manner as the members of the Industry Grouping, it is justified to allow the in-kind contribution from both the Industry Grouping and Research Grouping to be counted as matching funds.

CONTENT: this Regulation amends the current provisions governing the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking in order to facilitate research actions and make it easier to increase funding levels for the project.

The main amendments are as follows:

· the new text states that the matching of EU funds shall take into account not only industry's own contribution but also that coming from the other legal entities participating in the activities;

· the operational costs of the Programme Office of the Joint Undertaking should be provided by its three members. It is appropriate to provide that all members of the Joint Undertaking have the same payment schedule;

· the Commission is given some flexibility as to the measures to take in case of insufficient matching;

· the funding level is determined after each evaluation of received proposals. In order to allow the beneficiaries to estimate the extent of the potential funding, the new Regulation provides for the possibility of specifying the minimum funding level for a call.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 09/12/2011.

2011/11/14
   EP/CSL - Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
2011/11/14
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2011/11/14
   CSL - Council Meeting
2011/09/28
   PT_PARLIAMENT - Contribution
Documents
2011/09/13
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2011/09/13
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 592 votes to 18, with 57 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.

Parliament approved the Commission proposal unamended.

Documents
2011/07/04
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
2011/07/04
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
2011/06/30
   EP - Vote in committee
Details

The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy adopted the report drafted by Herbert REUL (EPP, DE) recommending the European Parliament to approve, unamended, the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.

2011/06/17
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2011/06/07
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2011/05/25
   EP - REUL Herbert (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in ITRE
2011/04/20
   EC - Legislative proposal
Details

PURPOSE: to amend Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking .

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

BACKGROUND: fuel cells and hydrogen (FCH) technologies are promising, long-term energy options that can be used in all the sectors of the economy and that offer a broad range of benefits for energy security, transport, environment and resource efficiency. They are expected to play a major role in the transition of the EU to a low-carbon society and to achieve the goal of cutting GHG emissions by over 85% by 2050.

In the transport sector, a recent study concludes that:

fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have significant potential to reduce CO2 and local emissions. Both will be viable and complementary alternatives to conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICEs) by 2025, or earlier with appropriate tax exemptions and incentives; over the course of the next decades, costs for a hydrogen distribution and retail infrastructure will be 5% of the overall cost of FCEVs (EUR 1,000-2,000 per car) which justifies building a dedicated hydrogen infrastructure.

In order to enable the full contribution of FCH technologies continuous and stable public support and accompanying policy measures are still needed to overcome the remaining technological, economic and institutional barriers to their widespread commercialisation. The major EU competitors in this field (US, Japan, South Korea and China) continue to conduct comprehensive efforts to overcome these barriers via RTD programmes, policy measures and commercialisation exercises.

IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment was carried out.

LEGAL BASIS: Articles 187 and 188 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

CONTENT: the Joint Undertaking for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH JU) was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 . The three members, the Industry Grouping (IG), the Research Grouping (RG) and the European Commission share the funding of administrative and operational costs.

A requirement for the participation of industry from the outset was that industry should make a financial contribution of 50% of the running costs (shared with the Commission), and that industry's in-kind contribution to the operational costs should at least match the Commission's financial contribution.

Since its establishment the FCH JU has published three calls for proposals: the first covering EUR 28.1 million, the second EUR 73.1 million and the third EUR 89.1 million. The provision for matching contributions from industry for operational costs means that industry also has to cover contributions to the other participants (including universities, research centres, public bodies, etc.) for all types of activities (including basic research).

The result in the first two FCH JU calls for proposals is that the maximum funding levels have to be systematically evaluated and reduced for all participants. For the first two calls the matching requirement resulted in a significant reduction of reimbursement of direct costs: for large industries from 50% to 33% FCH JU contribution and for SMEs and research bodies from 75% to 50%.

The low funding rates and the financial and economic crisis, which affects the industry working with this future technology, result in the current level of participation in the actions of the FCH JU being below initial expectations. A general loss of interest by both industry and the research community can be expected if we continue along the same path. Accordingly, the proposal aims to adapt the Regulation as follows:

contributions from public national and regional sources to the projects are encouraged and are expected in several cases. However, the current Regulation does not take it into account. The new text states that the matching of EU funds shall allow taking into account not only industry's own contribution but also that coming from the other legal entities participating in the activities; the running costs of the Programme Office of the Joint Undertaking should be provided by its three members. It is appropriate to provide that all members of the Joint Undertaking have the same payment schedule; the Commission should be given some flexibility as to the measures to take in case of insufficient matching; at present the funding level is determined after each evaluation of received proposals. In order to allow the beneficiaries to estimate the extent of the potential funding, a possibility to specify the minimum funding level for a call should be provided for.

BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS: there are no financial implications compared to the budget initially adopted for this Council Regulation. The amendments suggested will improve the possibility of spending the amounts provided. The EU contribution, totalling 470 million EUR, will come from the following FP7 "Cooperation" Specific Programme budget lines: Energy; Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies; Transport (including Aeronautics); and Environment (including Climate Change) in DG RTD and Transport in DG MOVE and Energy in DG ENER.

2011/04/20
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Details

PURPOSE: to amend Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking .

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

BACKGROUND: fuel cells and hydrogen (FCH) technologies are promising, long-term energy options that can be used in all the sectors of the economy and that offer a broad range of benefits for energy security, transport, environment and resource efficiency. They are expected to play a major role in the transition of the EU to a low-carbon society and to achieve the goal of cutting GHG emissions by over 85% by 2050.

In the transport sector, a recent study concludes that:

fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have significant potential to reduce CO2 and local emissions. Both will be viable and complementary alternatives to conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICEs) by 2025, or earlier with appropriate tax exemptions and incentives; over the course of the next decades, costs for a hydrogen distribution and retail infrastructure will be 5% of the overall cost of FCEVs (EUR 1,000-2,000 per car) which justifies building a dedicated hydrogen infrastructure.

In order to enable the full contribution of FCH technologies continuous and stable public support and accompanying policy measures are still needed to overcome the remaining technological, economic and institutional barriers to their widespread commercialisation. The major EU competitors in this field (US, Japan, South Korea and China) continue to conduct comprehensive efforts to overcome these barriers via RTD programmes, policy measures and commercialisation exercises.

IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment was carried out.

LEGAL BASIS: Articles 187 and 188 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

CONTENT: the Joint Undertaking for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH JU) was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 . The three members, the Industry Grouping (IG), the Research Grouping (RG) and the European Commission share the funding of administrative and operational costs.

A requirement for the participation of industry from the outset was that industry should make a financial contribution of 50% of the running costs (shared with the Commission), and that industry's in-kind contribution to the operational costs should at least match the Commission's financial contribution.

Since its establishment the FCH JU has published three calls for proposals: the first covering EUR 28.1 million, the second EUR 73.1 million and the third EUR 89.1 million. The provision for matching contributions from industry for operational costs means that industry also has to cover contributions to the other participants (including universities, research centres, public bodies, etc.) for all types of activities (including basic research).

The result in the first two FCH JU calls for proposals is that the maximum funding levels have to be systematically evaluated and reduced for all participants. For the first two calls the matching requirement resulted in a significant reduction of reimbursement of direct costs: for large industries from 50% to 33% FCH JU contribution and for SMEs and research bodies from 75% to 50%.

The low funding rates and the financial and economic crisis, which affects the industry working with this future technology, result in the current level of participation in the actions of the FCH JU being below initial expectations. A general loss of interest by both industry and the research community can be expected if we continue along the same path. Accordingly, the proposal aims to adapt the Regulation as follows:

contributions from public national and regional sources to the projects are encouraged and are expected in several cases. However, the current Regulation does not take it into account. The new text states that the matching of EU funds shall allow taking into account not only industry's own contribution but also that coming from the other legal entities participating in the activities; the running costs of the Programme Office of the Joint Undertaking should be provided by its three members. It is appropriate to provide that all members of the Joint Undertaking have the same payment schedule; the Commission should be given some flexibility as to the measures to take in case of insufficient matching; at present the funding level is determined after each evaluation of received proposals. In order to allow the beneficiaries to estimate the extent of the potential funding, a possibility to specify the minimum funding level for a call should be provided for.

BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS: there are no financial implications compared to the budget initially adopted for this Council Regulation. The amendments suggested will improve the possibility of spending the amounts provided. The EU contribution, totalling 470 million EUR, will come from the following FP7 "Cooperation" Specific Programme budget lines: Energy; Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies; Transport (including Aeronautics); and Environment (including Climate Change) in DG RTD and Transport in DG MOVE and Energy in DG ENER.

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  • date: 2011-04-20T00:00:00 type: Legislative proposal published body: EC docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2011/0224/COM_COM(2011)0224_EN.pdf title: COM(2011)0224 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2011&nu_doc=224 title: EUR-Lex summary: PURPOSE: to amend Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking . PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation. BACKGROUND: fuel cells and hydrogen (FCH) technologies are promising, long-term energy options that can be used in all the sectors of the economy and that offer a broad range of benefits for energy security, transport, environment and resource efficiency. They are expected to play a major role in the transition of the EU to a low-carbon society and to achieve the goal of cutting GHG emissions by over 85% by 2050. In the transport sector, a recent study concludes that: fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have significant potential to reduce CO2 and local emissions. Both will be viable and complementary alternatives to conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICEs) by 2025, or earlier with appropriate tax exemptions and incentives; over the course of the next decades, costs for a hydrogen distribution and retail infrastructure will be 5% of the overall cost of FCEVs (EUR 1,000-2,000 per car) which justifies building a dedicated hydrogen infrastructure. In order to enable the full contribution of FCH technologies continuous and stable public support and accompanying policy measures are still needed to overcome the remaining technological, economic and institutional barriers to their widespread commercialisation. The major EU competitors in this field (US, Japan, South Korea and China) continue to conduct comprehensive efforts to overcome these barriers via RTD programmes, policy measures and commercialisation exercises. IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment was carried out. LEGAL BASIS: Articles 187 and 188 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. CONTENT: the Joint Undertaking for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH JU) was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 . The three members, the Industry Grouping (IG), the Research Grouping (RG) and the European Commission share the funding of administrative and operational costs. A requirement for the participation of industry from the outset was that industry should make a financial contribution of 50% of the running costs (shared with the Commission), and that industry's in-kind contribution to the operational costs should at least match the Commission's financial contribution. Since its establishment the FCH JU has published three calls for proposals: the first covering EUR 28.1 million, the second EUR 73.1 million and the third EUR 89.1 million. The provision for matching contributions from industry for operational costs means that industry also has to cover contributions to the other participants (including universities, research centres, public bodies, etc.) for all types of activities (including basic research). The result in the first two FCH JU calls for proposals is that the maximum funding levels have to be systematically evaluated and reduced for all participants. For the first two calls the matching requirement resulted in a significant reduction of reimbursement of direct costs: for large industries from 50% to 33% FCH JU contribution and for SMEs and research bodies from 75% to 50%. The low funding rates and the financial and economic crisis, which affects the industry working with this future technology, result in the current level of participation in the actions of the FCH JU being below initial expectations. A general loss of interest by both industry and the research community can be expected if we continue along the same path. Accordingly, the proposal aims to adapt the Regulation as follows: contributions from public national and regional sources to the projects are encouraged and are expected in several cases. However, the current Regulation does not take it into account. The new text states that the matching of EU funds shall allow taking into account not only industry's own contribution but also that coming from the other legal entities participating in the activities; the running costs of the Programme Office of the Joint Undertaking should be provided by its three members. It is appropriate to provide that all members of the Joint Undertaking have the same payment schedule; the Commission should be given some flexibility as to the measures to take in case of insufficient matching; at present the funding level is determined after each evaluation of received proposals. In order to allow the beneficiaries to estimate the extent of the potential funding, a possibility to specify the minimum funding level for a call should be provided for. BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS: there are no financial implications compared to the budget initially adopted for this Council Regulation. The amendments suggested will improve the possibility of spending the amounts provided. The EU contribution, totalling 470 million EUR, will come from the following FP7 "Cooperation" Specific Programme budget lines: Energy; Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies; Transport (including Aeronautics); and Environment (including Climate Change) in DG RTD and Transport in DG MOVE and Energy in DG ENER.
  • date: 2011-06-07T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2011-06-30T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy adopted the report drafted by Herbert REUL (EPP, DE) recommending the European Parliament to approve, unamended, the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.
  • date: 2011-07-04T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A7-2011-261&language=EN title: A7-0261/2011
  • date: 2011-09-13T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=20342&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2011-09-13T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2011-358 title: T7-0358/2011 summary: The European Parliament adopted by 592 votes to 18, with 57 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. Parliament approved the Commission proposal unamended.
  • date: 2011-11-14T00:00:00 type: Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament body: EP/CSL
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  • date: 2011-11-19T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal summary: PURPOSE: to amend Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking to facilitate financial and in-kind contributions. NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation (EU) No 1183/2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 setting up the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. BACKGROUND: the fuel cells and hydrogen joint technology initiative is a public-private partnership supporting research, development and demonstration activities in fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies in Europe. Its aim is to accelerate the market introduction of these technologies realising their potential as a vector in a carbon-lean energy system. To implement the initiative, the founding members set up a joint undertaking in May 2008 for the period up to 2017 with the objective of pooling resources from public and private sources. The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (the ‘FCH Joint Undertaking’) was set up under Council Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 by its founding members, the European Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative Industry Grouping Aisbl (the ‘Industry Grouping’) and the Commission. The Research Grouping became a member of the FCH Joint Undertaking on 14 July 2008 and contributes both financially and in kind to the objectives of the FCH Joint Undertaking. Since the members of the Research Grouping may benefit from the results achieved by the FCH JU in the same manner as the members of the Industry Grouping, it is justified to allow the in-kind contribution from both the Industry Grouping and Research Grouping to be counted as matching funds. CONTENT: this Regulation amends the current provisions governing the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking in order to facilitate research actions and make it easier to increase funding levels for the project. The main amendments are as follows: · the new text states that the matching of EU funds shall take into account not only industry's own contribution but also that coming from the other legal entities participating in the activities; · the operational costs of the Programme Office of the Joint Undertaking should be provided by its three members. It is appropriate to provide that all members of the Joint Undertaking have the same payment schedule; · the Commission is given some flexibility as to the measures to take in case of insufficient matching; · the funding level is determined after each evaluation of received proposals. In order to allow the beneficiaries to estimate the extent of the potential funding, the new Regulation provides for the possibility of specifying the minimum funding level for a call. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 09/12/2011. docs: title: Regulation 2011/1183 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32011R1183 title: OJ L 302 19.11.2011, p. 0003 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2011:302:TOC
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  • Amending Regulation (EC) No 521/2008 2007/0211(CNS)
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  • 3.50.01.05 Research specific areas
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  • 3.70.03 Climate change, ozone layer
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  • date: 2011-04-20T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2011/0224/COM_COM(2011)0224_EN.pdf celexid: CELEX:52011PC0224:EN type: Legislative proposal published title: COM(2011)0224 body: EC commission: DG: url: http://ec.europa.eu/research/home.cfm title: Research and Innovation Commissioner: OETTINGER Günther type: Legislative proposal published
  • date: 2011-06-07T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee: ENVI body: EP responsible: True committee: ITRE date: 2011-05-25T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE name: REUL Herbert
  • date: 2011-06-30T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee: ENVI body: EP responsible: True committee: ITRE date: 2011-05-25T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE name: REUL Herbert type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2011-07-04T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A7-2011-261&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading title: A7-0261/2011 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee: ENVI body: EP responsible: True committee: ITRE date: 2011-05-25T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE name: REUL Herbert type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2011-09-13T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=20342&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2011-358 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T7-0358/2011 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2011-11-14T00:00:00 body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Agriculture and Fisheries meeting_id: 3123
  • date: 2011-11-14T00:00:00 body: EP type: End of procedure in Parliament
  • date: 2011-11-14T00:00:00 body: EP/CSL type: Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
  • date: 2011-11-19T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal docs: url: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32011R1183 title: Regulation 2011/1183 url: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2011:302:TOC title: OJ L 302 19.11.2011, p. 0003
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  • body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee: ENVI
  • body: EP responsible: True committee: ITRE date: 2011-05-25T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE name: REUL Herbert
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