HyLaw stands for Hydrogen Law and removal of legal barriers to the deployment of fuel cells and hydrogen applications. It is a flagship project aimed at boosting the market uptake of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies providing market developers with a clear view of the applicable regulations whilst calling the attention of policy makers on legal barriers to be removed. The project brings together 23 partners from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, the Netherlands and United Kingdom and is coordinated by Hydrogen Europe. The HyLaw partners will first identify the legislation and regulations relevant to fuel cell and hydrogen applications and legal barriers to their commercialisation. They will then provide public authorities with country specific benchmarks and recommendations on how to remove these barriers. HyLaw main outputs will be – • An online and publicly available database compiling legal and administrative processes applicable to hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in 18 countries across Europe; • National policy chapters describing each legal and administrative process, highlighting best practices, legal barriers and providing policy recommendations; • A pan-European policy chapter targeted towards European decision makers; • National and European workshops for dissemination of the findings and convincing public authorities to remove barriers. – HyLaw started in January 2017 and will run until December 2018. The database will be maintained by Hydrogen Europe for minimum three years after the end of the project.
Published in Chapter:
HyLaw or Hydrogen Law: A Regulation for Removal of Legal Barriers to the Deployment of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Applications
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9851-1.ch002
Abstract
In recent years, hydrogen technology has been at the forefront of environmental discussions to meet increasingly tough climate protection goals and particularly low emissions targets in the transportation sector. Like any major change, a transition to hydrogen energy faced challenges in many countries, which caused several problems in the growth of the hydrogen share of the total energy supply portfolio. In 2018, Hydrogen Law (Hylaw) was introduced, which removes the legal barriers to the deployment of fuel cells and hydrogen applications. It is a flagship project aimed at boosting the market uptake of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies providing market developers with a clear view of the applicable regulations while calling policymakers' attention to legal barriers to be removed. This chapter introduces a consistent framework for the Hylaw regulations that makes is a clear and precise statement and an interconnection between law and energy management policies.