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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-559/annex/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/559",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 559/2014 of 6 May 2014 establishing the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-559",
  "path": "annex/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "Article 1",
  "heading": "Tasks",
  "text": "The FCH 2 Joint Undertaking shall carry out the following tasks:\n(a) provide financial support to research and innovation indirect actions mainly in the form of grants;\n(b) reach the critical mass of research efforts to build confidence in industry, public and private investors, decision makers and other stakeholders to embark on a long-term programme;\n(c) integrate research and technology developments and focus on achieving long-term sustainability and industrial competitiveness targets for cost, performance and durability and overcome critical technology bottlenecks;\n(d) stimulate innovation and the emergence of new value chains;\n(e) facilitate interaction between industry, universities and research centres;\n(f) promote the involvement of SMEs in its activities, in line with the objectives of Horizon 2020;\n(g) perform broadly-conceived socio-techno-economic research to assess and monitor technological progress and nontechnical barriers to market entry;\n(h) encourage the development of new regulations and standards and review existing ones to eliminate artificial barriers to market entry and to support inter-changeability, inter-operability, cross-border trading, and export markets;\n(i) ensure the efficient management of the FCH 2 Joint Undertaking;\n(j) commit Union funding and mobilise the private sector and other public sector resources needed to implement fuel cells and hydrogen research and innovation activities;\n(k) foster and facilitate the involvement of industry in additional activities implemented outside indirect actions;\n(l) engage in information, communication, exploitation and dissemination activities by applying mutatis mutandis Article 28 of Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013, including making the detailed information on results from calls for proposals available and accessible in a common Horizon 2020 e-database;\n(m) liaise with a broad range of stakeholders including research organisations and universities;\n(n) any other task needed to achieve the objectives set out in Article 2 of this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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