The consultation is intended to provide input on the scope and content of the strategy, which will feed into the Commission’s preparations of the document. It runs through two channels: a call for evidence on the Commission’s “Have your say” portal and a targeted stakeholder consultation on the Directorate-General for Energy’s website.

The new Hydrogen Strategy will be developed in parallel with the renewable energy framework for the period to 2040, to ensure that renewables contribute to the 2040 EU climate target while addressing geopolitical pressure to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels.

Hydrogen is used as a feedstock in ammonia and methanol production and in refining, so the scope of the strategy will bear on how supply, infrastructure and demand for it develop. The consultation follows several recent steps on the hydrogen market, among them the results of the third European Hydrogen Bank auction, the infrastructure round of the EU Hydrogen Mechanism, and the infringement procedures opened over the delayed transposition of the revised gas and hydrogen market rules.

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