Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the position to be adopted on the Union’s behalf in the Administrative Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on the draft new Regulation on hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles

At international level, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) develops harmonised requirements, intended to remove technical barriers to the trade in motor vehicles and systems used for such motor vehicles between the Contracting Parties to the ‘Revised 1958 Agreement’ and to ensure that such vehicles and systems offer a high level of safety and environmental protection.

The UNECE recently finalised a draft Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicles and their components with regard to the safety-related performance of hydrogen-fuelled vehicles. The objective of this draft Regulation is to establish a high level of safety for compressed hydrogen storage systems, vehicle fuel systems and their specific components. The established provisions of Global Technical Regulation No 13 on Hydrogen Safety, as adopted through Council Decision 10157/13, are effectively transposed into the draft new UNECE Regulation.

The present proposal aims at defining the Union's position with regard to the draft UNECE Regulation on Hydrogen Safety consequently to provide for the Union, represented by the Commission, to vote in favour of this draft.

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EUR-Lex: COM(2014)678: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:678:FIN

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