We're thrilled to announce that on 31 May, we'll be awarding prizes dedicated to safety, a topic at the heart of EIGA's ongoing commitment!
Stay tuned for updates as we approach the awards ceremony. Let's continue to champion safety together!
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HIGHLIGHTS OF WORKING GROUPS ACTIVITIES |
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Joint meeting of the Working Groups and National Associations
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On 16 April, National Associations and Working Group Chairs met in Brussels.
This yearly event is a unique opportunity to exchange information on the many topics addressed by the +20 EIGA Working Groups and at national level.
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Also an opportunity for EIGA to touch upon the true value of a European association: its members!
The next day, National Associations had another fruitful meeting and discussed specific common issues.
The German association, IGV, mentioned their diner debate with more than 100 participants, half of whom were decision-makers. The focus was the German carbon management strategy.
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WG 1: Battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks for dangerous goods transport
Barring an unexpected turn of events, battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks will be allowed to move EIGA members’ tank vehicles, battery vehicles and MEGCs beginning with 2025. This was recently agreed for inclusion in ADR 2025 in the April meeting of the relevant UNECE Working Party (WP.15). EIGA’s involvement in the decision making process, via AHG-1.3, was critical. Not only did our experts provide the required expertise on hydrogen for the performed risk analyses, but we also actively promoted to get hydrogen fuel cells included “in one go”, the regulators initially being primarily focused on battery electric systems.
EIGA would like to commend AHG-1.3 for a job well done. Once the text for ADR 2025 is finalised in September’24, EIGA members can consider integrating battery electric and fuel cell driven trucks in their fleets.
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Register for a COMPLIMENTARY visitor pass, to World Hydrogen 2024 Summit and Exhibition, the largest hydrogen exhibition in Europe with over 15,000 hydrogen professionals and over 500 global exhibitors during 13-14 May. EIGA Staff moderates the session 9: Standardization, Certification & Regulations.
Whether you're wanting to meet your next business partner or network with top hydrogen leaders - join the landmark event in the industry's calendar.
• Meet and network with over 15,000 global attendees from over 130 countries, including government representatives and world hydrogen leaders
• A bustling exhibition with over 500 exhibitors across 5 exhibition floors, the perfect place to discuss business and arrange meetings
• Incredible and unique H2 Tech Series - increased to 2 stages for 2024 due to surging demand. Visit to hear short, punchy presentations from over 200 energy stakeholders on the exhibition floor. See the programme here!
• Visit over 20 country and regional pavilions to discuss how their hydrogen economy is growing. See the floorplan here!
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Voted
On 11 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the Hydrogen and Gas Package.
On 23 April, the European Parliament adopted the provisional agreement of CLP Regulation (classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances and mixtures which are released on the EU market).
On 25 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the Net-Zero industry Act.
More info on our Blog!
Talking about votes... The EU elections will take place between 6 and 9 June 2024.
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Towards a competitiveness / industrial deal?
Over 1000 organizations have signed the Antwerp Declaration, calling for a European #IndustrialDeal to complement the Green Deal and keep high quality jobs for European workers in Europe.
EIGA was amongst the first signatories.
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DOC 227/24 - Unique Device Identifier (UDI) for Medical Devices Used in the Gas Industry
(Revision of Doc 227/20)
Applies to the medical devices put on the market by the gas manufacturers according to the new medical device regulation EU 2017/745 and concerns the implementation of the requirements related to the UDI system.
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DOC 250/24 - Standard Procedures for Hydrogen Supply Systems
(Harmonised publication)
This publication provides recommended best practices and standardised procedures for personnel using hydrogen supply systems. The practices and procedures are limited to bulk gaseous and cryogenic liquid hydrogen and do not address non-bulk (cylinders) supply systems. This publication addresses processes for commissioning, filling, decommissioning, maintaining, and operating hydrogen supply systems.
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DOC 251/24 - Overview of Hydrogen Production Methods
This publication provides an accessible overview of current commercially available industrial hydrogen production methods.
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TB 051/24 - Hydrogen Interface for Trailer to Hydrogen Refueling Station
Hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) are being deployed out of the industrial environment where Industrial Gas Companies are used to operate trailers. It is foreseen that a significant increase in number of deliveries to HRS will be required to support the growth of Hydrogen mobility applications. The connection between Gaseous Hydrogen (GH2) trailers and HRS are typical industrial connectors but there is a lack of harmonised standardisation of physical connectors and relevant safety systems for interoperability. The aim of this document is to represent EIGA recommendations on this topic.
The scope of the document covers GH2 trailer usage in Europe, however most of the functional requirements can be extended and adapted for other geographies.
The requirements of this document only apply for new installations.
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TB 052/24 - General Safety and Performance Requirements of Medical Device Regulation applied to Argon
This Technical Bulletin provides guidance on the interpretation of the General Safety and Performance Requirements (GSPR) in Annex I of the Medical Device Regulation (MDR), when applied to gaseous Argon as a medical device such as intended for plasma coagulation or cryoablation, and to provide implementation recommendations.
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Awareness Package TP INC 53/24 - Recent Incidents in the Industrial and Medical Gases Industry (SAC 177)
At each meeting of the EIGA Safety Advisory Council (SAC), the members exchange information on gas industry related incidents (accidents causing injuries, property or environmental damage and near-misses). SAC discusses and analyses these incidents. This information is used by SAC to determine the priorities for safety alerts, safety information, new and revised documents, campaigns etc. In this Awareness Package are the summaries and photographs of incidents discussed at SAC.
This publication can be viewed or downloaded on the EIGA Website (restricted to EIGA Members only).
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TP 065/24 - Cylinder & CO2 Plants Environmental Issues
(Revision of TP 004/16 and TP 018/16) EIGA publication Doc. 110 Environmental Impacts Cylinder Filling Plants details the environmental impacts of the management of cylinder filling operations and gives guidelines on how to reduce their environmental impact. It is intended to serve as a guide for Industrial Gases cylinder filling operations managers and personnel… Read More →
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