Over the last weeks several important communciations of the Commission are pointing to an increasing awareness of the role of fuel cells and hydrogen, next to batteries and elctricitity in moving towards the decarbonization of transport. President Barroso embarking on his second turn as head of the Commission, made a special refernece to decarbomization in his 5 year plan. The EHA office, hosting the second General Assembly of HyER (formerly HyRaMP) the first week of October in Brussels, facilitated several meetings and presentation of key EU officials to explain the significance of the new policies for hydrogen and fuel cell development in Europe. The EHA submitted this month also a contribution to the consultation on the Future of Urban Mobility for which an Action Plan has been developed. The EHA is stressing the importance of coordinating the development of the infrastructure for hydrogen refuelling and battery recharging with regards to the efficient use of primary sources. This links directly to efforts and financial investment needed to achieve the goals of the EU Strategic Eenrgy Technology Plan that saw a communciation on the estimated € 50 billion of private and public financing needed for 2010-2020 to develop key energy technologies that contribute to emission reductions. The communciation mentions that hydrogen and fuel cells development will need a total of € 5 billion during 2013-2020 to support “more and larer scale demonstrations and pre-commercial deployment activites for portable,stationary, transport applications”. September also marked the finalisation of project proposals for the second JTI call that deadlines on October 15, 2009. The EHA has been asked to support the dissemination of several projects and is keen to expand this role in upcoming calls leveraging the contact network of its 15 national associations and links to the 30 regions of the HyER (formerly HyRaMP) Partenrship.