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Bellona’s Position on RFNBO Rules

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Bellona’s Position on RFNBO Rules

This paper summarises Bellona Europa’s position on RFNBO rules (Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1184), taking into account the recent push from certain industrial stakeholders to weaken its safeguards under the premise that they would be substantially delaying or making hydrogen production unaffordable.

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