# Council Regulation (EU) No 559/2014 of 6 May 2014 establishing the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (Text with EEA relevance), Division Article 1: Tasks

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The FCH 2 Joint Undertaking shall carry out the following tasks:
(a) provide financial support to research and innovation indirect actions mainly in the form of grants;
(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;
(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;
(d) stimulate innovation and the emergence of new value chains;
(e) facilitate interaction between industry, universities and research centres;
(f) promote the involvement of SMEs in its activities, in line with the objectives of Horizon 2020;
(g) perform broadly-conceived socio-techno-economic research to assess and monitor technological progress and nontechnical barriers to market entry;
(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;
(i) ensure the efficient management of the FCH 2 Joint Undertaking;
(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;
(k) foster and facilitate the involvement of industry in additional activities implemented outside indirect actions;
(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;
(m) liaise with a broad range of stakeholders including research organisations and universities;
(n) any other task needed to achieve the objectives set out in Article 2 of this Regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/559/annex/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-559/annex/division-1
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