User Guide

Aggregation: A group of submissions of the same type aggregated by a participant.

Declaration on Honour (DoH): The document signed and uploaded by the Administrator- User attesting that the Participant undertakes the commitments and complies with the requirements that are necessary to participate in the Platform.

Hydrogen Mechanism: The mechanism to support the market development of hydrogen pursuant to Article 52 of Regulation 2024/1789.

Information sheet: An anonymised summary of a submission, comprising selected information (e.g. key and non-sensitive characteristics/data).

Mechanism: A system dedicated to a specific product or group of products hosted under the Platform.

Participant: An organisation registered on the Platform and able to take part in rounds.

Platform: The EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform, the web application of the European Commission for collecting and exchanging market data related to energy-related products and strategic raw materials.

Power of Attorney (PoA): The document signed by the Participant's legal representative according to the applicable rules of representation, uploaded by the Administrator-User, to attest that he or she is legally empowered to act on behalf of the Participant.

Qualified Electronic Signature (QES): An electronic signature compliant with the e-IDAS Regulation, providing a high level of assurance in terms of electronic identification and legal validity.

Raw Materials Mechanism: The mechanism to support off-take agreements for Strategic Projects as well as security of supply and diversification of raw materials in the EU pursuant to Articles 17 and 25 of Regulation 2024/1252.

Registration: The process that organisations must undergo to be granted access as Participant to the Platform. Registration to the Platform must be complemented by a subscription to one or several of the mechanisms.

Round: A specific time window in which participants can create, access and express interest in the submissions. Rounds are split in phases, each dedicated to one specific action (e.g. submission of supply offers, publication of call for demand interest, etc).

Round Type: The Platform offers multiple round types, each tailored to a specific market need. A round type defines the round phases, aggregation, and matching criteria, as well as any geographical or other limitations.

Submission: A demand request or a supply offer submitted during a round. A submission should contain various information useful for potential counterparties.

Subscription: The process that organisations must undergo to be granted access to the features of a given mechanism.

Joining to the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform and any of its mechanisms is subject to:

• Appointing an Administrator-user: an authorised representative of the organisation logging in to the Platform using EU Login and initiating the registration and subscription process (see How to access the Platform as Administrator-user or User);
• Registration of the organisation to the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform by an Administrator-User (see How to register a Participant on the Platform); and
• Subscription of the organisation to one or several mechanisms.

The registration and subscription(s) are always performed at the level of an organisation.

Following an approved registration and subscription(s), individual representatives of such organisation can be granted user roles by the Administrator-user.

Administrator-user: An individual authorised by a Participant to register such Participant and perform various tasks and operations on its behalf on the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform.

A Participant's Administrator-user has the exclusive right to:

• Manage the Participant's subscriptions
• Manage the Participant's users: invite new Users, provide access to the organisation's subscriptions, remove Users
• Request a change in the registered information
• Access the documents attached to the registration

There can only be one Administrator-user per organisation.

Participant: Participants are undertakings as referred to in Article 2(1) of the Terms and Conditions, or financial institutions, whose registration and subscription requests have been approved.

User: A natural person acting on the Platform on behalf of their organisation, following an invitation from the organisation's Administrator-user.

Participants subscribing to the Hydrogen Mechanism must be a hydrogen undertaking as defined in Article 2(14) of Directive (EU) 2024/1788, or an undertaking consuming hydrogen.

Other organisations or undertakings that do not meet the above-mentioned definition cannot participate in the Hydrogen Mechanism on the Platform. However, they will be able to find, on the publicly available webpage of the Mechanism, general aggregated information on the results of the rounds under the Mechanism.

Participants subscribing to the Raw Materials Mechanism must be undertakings consuming raw materials established in the Union, suppliers of raw materials, central buyers, who purchase on behalf of other undertakings consuming raw materials established in the Union, and storage suppliers as established in Articles 17 and 25 of Regulation 2024/1252 and as specified in the Terms and Conditions.

Other organisations or undertakings that do not meet the above-mentioned requirements cannot participate in the Raw Materials Mechanism on the Platform. However, they will be able to find, on the publicly available webpage of the Mechanism, general aggregated information on the results of the rounds under the Mechanism.

The EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform requires all users to log in via the EU Login service. This guide outlines the steps to access the Platform.

1. Accessing the Platform

Visit the Platform's website and locate the "Enter the Platform" button on the homepage or public section of the site. The Platform uses the EU Login service for secure and authenticated access.

2. EU Login Account Creation

If you do not have an EU Login account, navigate to the EU Login page and click "Create an account."

Enter your professional email address and necessary information as requested. Verify your email and set a password to finalise your account creation.

If you already have an EU Login account linked to a private email address, you must create a new EU Login account linked to your professional email address.

3. Two-Factor Authentication Setup

To enhance security, enable two-factor authentication in your EU Login account settings. Select an authentication method, such as an app or mobile device, for verification codes. Follow the instructions to complete the setup and strengthen account security.

4. Logging in to the Platform

After creating your EU Login account, return to the Platform and click the “Login” button. Enter your credentials and complete two-factor authentication as prompted. Upon verification, you'll be redirected and logged into the Platform.

5. User Registration Completion

Successfully logging in enables access to the Platform based on your current user role:

• (future) Administrator-user if you are initiating the process to register an organisation;
• Administrator-user, if you already registered your organisation;
• User, if you received an invitation to participate from the Administrator-user of your organisation.

Registering a Participant involves the following steps:

• Providing all requested information and uploading corresponding documents
• Submitting the registration and subscription requests

1. Prerequisites

Before initiating registration, please ensure you have the following documents:

• Extract of the commercial register, not more than 3 months old, attesting your organisation's establishment and listing its legal representatives.
• A signed Power of Attorney (PoA).
• A signed Declaration on Honour (DoH).

In addition, you will need to access the Platform using an EU Login account linked to your professional email address (see How to access the Platform as Administrator-user or User).

2. Initiating registration

• Access the Platform's website, locate the registration section.
• Click the “Register now (Enter the Platform)” button to start the process.

3. Organisation tab - fill out participant information

Enter your organisation's key data, such as:

• Legal name: Use alphanumeric text.
• Country of establishment: Select the country from the list (Please note that specific exclusions apply in the Hydrogen and Gas mechanisms).
• National registration number: Enter using alphanumeric characters.
• Company address: Please provide the official company address.
• Web (optional)
• Credit rating (optional)
• Upload the extract of the commercial registry as a PDF.

4. User tab - include information about the Administrator-user

When registering your organisation, you will become its Administrator-user for the purpose of the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform.

• Provide details about the Administrator-User, including job title, department, and phone number.
• Provide professional address in case it differs from organisation address provided
• Upload the signed Power of Attorney (PoA) (see How to complete the Power of Attorney). The PoA must be signed with a Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) compliant with the eIDAS Regulation (eSignature). or, alternatively a handwritten signature. In the latter case, you will need to upload a scan of your ID and retain document originals for verification.
• If multiple ID documents need to be uploaded, please use single .pdf, .jpg, .jpeg or .png file containing multiple ID documents.
• The maximum size of the file is 10 MB.

5. Subscriptions tab - subscribe to a mechanism

• Select to which mechanism(s) you wish to subscribe. At least one mechanism (subscription) needs to be selected.
• Participants can later subscribe to additional mechanisms following the validation of their registration.
• Financial institutions must subscribe to the financial institutions subscription in order to provide information about available financial products, across mechanisms. It is not possible to cumulate a “Financial institution subscription” with the subscription to another mechanism.
• Upload the signed Declaration on Honor (DoH). The DoH must be signed either with a Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) compliant with the eIDAS Regulation (eSignature) or, alternatively a handwritten signature. In the latter case, you will need to upload a scan of your ID and retain document originals for verification.
  • If PoA in previous step was uploaded using QES, make sure QES is used also for DoH.
  • The maximum size of the file is 10 MB.

6. Summary tab - complete the registration

• Review the registration information summary.
• Read and accept the Platform's terms and conditions.
• Submit the registration and await validation by the Platform operator.
• You can check the validation status in the Platform and you will be informed of changes to the status by an email notification.
• Active participants (validated by the Platform operator) have access to features and mechanism(s)depending on the registration and subscription.

For support during registration, please consult Platform resources or contact the help desk support.euenergy@sfera.sk for further assistance.

Yes. The registration to the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform and to its active Mechanisms is always open.

However, in case you wish to participate in an ongoing round, we invite you to register your organisation as soon as possible.

The Commission cannot guarantee that registrations received after the date mentioned below will be processed on time:

Hydrogen Mechanism

Call for demand interest - 12. Nov 2025 - Round #1

• 12 December 2025 (if you wish to submit a supply offer)
• 28 February 2026 (if you wish to submit a demand request)

See How to complete the Declaration on Honour? page.

You need to upload a signed Power of Attorney (PoA) when registering an organisation on the Platform. This Power of Attorney must be established using the available template.

The Power of Attorney confirms that that you have been duly empowered to perform such registration and to act as Administrator-user of the organisation.

This guide will help you complete the Power of Attorney:

• Complete the identification details about the authorised representative of the organisation and the organisation.
• Depending on your situation, choose between:
  • Option 1: if you are an authorised representative of your organisation, having alone the legal capacity required to act on behalf of the organisation and to act as Administrator-user.
  • Option 2: if an authorised representative of your organisation has granted you the rights to act as Administrator User on behalf of the organisation on the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform.
  • When necessary, please ensure that all the organisation's representatives that are legally required to sign contracts on behalf of the organisation, including the chain of authorisations in case of proxy(-ies), sign the PoA. Add rows if needed.
• Sign the Power of Attorney using a Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) compliant with e-IDAS Regulation or, alternatively, a handwritten signature. In the latter case, you will need to upload a scan of your ID and retain document originals for verification.

One alternative of signing the Declaration on Honor and the Power of Attorney is through a qualified electronic signature:

• Please note that only the qualified electronic signature (QES) within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 (e-IDAS Regulation) will be accepted. More information here: eSignature.
• To make sure you use a QES compliant to e-IDAS Regulation, you need to check that both the service provider and the qualified certificate generation service used are included in the EU Trusted List Browser.
• Before sending back your electronically signed document, please check the signature and validity of the certificate with for instance the following DSS Demonstration validation tool available at: https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/DSS/webapp-demo/validation
• The EU Trusted List Browser can be consulted in order to check whether the electronic signature provider and the trust service it provides are part of European Union Trusted List: https://esignature.ec.europa.eu/efda/tl-browser/#/screen/home

Alternatively, the Declaration on Honor and the Power of Attorney may be signed with handwritten signature.

• In this case, the originals of the signed Declaration on Honor and the Power of Attorney shall be kept. The Commission or the Platform's operator may ask at any time to receive the original for the necessary checks.
• In addition, a copy of a valid ID document (passport or national identity card) of the signatory(-ies) must also be uploaded on the Platform.

Re-applying for the subscription

If your subscription is rejected, you will receive a detailed explanation in the corresponding email notification. Once your organisation has been accepted to the Platform, you may re-apply for the chosen subscription at any time.

Your re-application should address the reason for rejection by correcting or supplementing the information provided in the subscription application form or in the enclosed Declaration on Honour.

Use a handwritten signature for signing your document(s)

If the applicant's electronic signature does not meet the criteria of a Qualified Electronic Signature (QES), validation process can be made easier by using a handwritten signature instead.

When using handwritten signatures, please provide a scan of the ID document of all signatories. Those ID scans should be compiled into a single file and uploaded to the Platform accordingly.

Restart browser, check sessions, use incognito mode

If you are experiencing issues logging in, please try the following steps:

1. Restart your browser - close all tabs and windows, then reopen the browser to refresh your session
2. Check for active sessions - ensure you are not already logged in on another tab, which may cause a conflict
3. Use incognito mode - open a new incognito window and attempt to log in from there. This can help bypass any token-related issues caused by multiple open tabs.

Most common applicant errors

Unnecessary complications in the validation process can be avoided by steering clear of the following mistakes:

• Incomplete or outdated commercial register extracts: The extract is older than 3 months, does not include a list of authorized representatives, or lacks the company's address. In some cases, the extract does not list the person signing the Power of Attorney as an authorized representative.
• Unclear or unverifiable ownership structure: The ownership structure or percentage shares of individual owners cannot be verified with available sources. Beneficial Owners are not listed, or their ownership shares cannot be confirmed.
• Formal errors in documents: Incorrect or incomplete company addresses, incorrect registration numbers (e.g., tax number instead of registration number), missing mandatory sections in documents (e.g., list of owners in the Declaration on Honour).
• Unauthorized persons signing documents: The person signing the Power of Attorney or Declaration on Honour is not listed as an authorized representative in the commercial register. A chain of proxies proving the signing authority is missing.

Date and time-related information is always displayed on the Platform in the CET/CEST time zone.

Financial institutions must follow the same process as other Participants (see How to register a Participant (organisation) on the Platform).

At the subscription stage, they can only subscribe to Financial institution subscription. This subscription is done once and is valid for all product-specific mechanisms under the Platform.

When registering, financial institutions must indicate whether they belong to one of the following categories:

• Monetary financial institutions as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2021/379 of the European Central Bank (link),
• Investment funds as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) No 1073/2013 of the European Central Bank (link),
• Financial vehicle corporations as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) No 1075/2013 of the European Central Bank (link),
• Insurance corporations as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) No 1374/2014 of the European Central Bank (link),
• Pension funds as defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2018/231 of the European Central Bank (link).
• Member States organisations (for example, export credit agencies or national promotional banks), or international public-sector organisations of which the EU or its Member States are members, which carry out financial activities.

Where financial institutions possess an entity's ID published by the European Central Bank, they must provide it at the stage of registration and subscription. Please consult the Lists of financial institutions on the European Central Bank's website to find the relevant entity ID number.

During the validation of the subscription, the Commission may reject entities seeking to subscribe as financial institutions which fail to provide an entity's ID code published by the European Central Bank and for which the Commission has reason to suspect that they do not belong to one of the category above.

Registered financial institution may publish information about their available financing offers, including relevant details and criteria. This information is then made available to Platform participants.

As other Participants, financial institutions operating on the Platform must comply with the provisions of the Terms and Conditions.

The features and conditions for publishing financing offers on the Platform will be announced in advance of the first round of the Hydrogen Mechanism (scheduled for Q4 2025).

The Organisation profile is a central space to manage your organisation's role on the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform.

In your Organisation profile, you can input and access:

• "Information": includes general information about your organisation and a possibility to request a change
• "Subscriptions": includes the list of your active subscription(s) to the Mechanism(s) under the Platform
• "Users": includes a list of users (employees) with access to the Platform and a possibility to invite other users
• "Document Library": see more details below
• "Project Library": see more details below
• "Contact Cards”: see more details below
• “Addresses": see more details below

The Document library is a space for participants to store files needed for demand requests and supply offers. Documents can be saved in the “Organisation profile” page before joining a round or added directly during a round when making demand requests or supply offers, allowing for easy reuse later.

The Project library is a space for participants to create and store information on their production or consumption/offtake projects used for submissions.

Projects can be created in the “Organisation profile” page before joining a round or added directly during a round when making demand requests or supply offers, allowing for easy reuse later. Projects in the Project Library can be updated to remain ready to use in an upcoming round.

Contact cards are a convenient way for matched participants to share their contact information with each other or with financial institutions. These reusable contact cards are stored on the organisation's profile. .

The contact card library allows users to pre-save cards intended for potential counterparts. Alternatively, contact cards can be created directly within the submission creation form

Participants will often have to provide Addresses when using the Platform. Addresses can be created in the “Organisation profile” page before joining a round or added directly during a round when making demand requests or supply offers, allowing for easy reuse later.

When creating an Address, participants should:

• include the exact address
• click on “Add GPS coordinates”
• check that the pin is in the right location and click on “Confirm”
• click on “Submit”

The Platform will host multiple mechanisms dedicated to specific markets. The first two mechanisms being released are:

• Hydrogen mechanism
• Raw Materials mechanism

The Platform provides a dashboard for each mechanism. The dashboard gives an overview and is the main access point to the mechanism, related data, events, and features.

Dashboard information can contain for instance:

• Scheduled rounds
• Consolidated round outcomes
• Announcements
• Project board

Participants can only access the dashboard if they have a valid subscription to the corresponding mechanism.

Participants of the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform can engage with financial institutions to explore funding opportunities for their projects.

Financial institutions are solely responsible for assessing any request for support in accordance with their rules and commercial practices.

Explore available Financial Products

Financial institutions registered on the Platform can publish their financial products, which then become available to the participants on the “Financial products” page. The products listed provide the following information:

• Financial product name
• Product type
• Eligibility criteria
• Additional information
• Public webpage to apply or contact details
• Example of projects already financed

You can initiate the contact with a financial institution by using the application link or the contact card. Share your submissions with financial institutions

If you select the “Share submission with financial institutions” option at the bottom of a submission form, this submission will become visible to financial institutions registered on the Platform and who uploaded at least one financial product. This decision can be made individually for each submission.

If both submissions involved in a match selected the option to be shared with financial institutions, the financial institutions also gain access to the match details.

A call for demand interest is a type of round of the Hydrogen Mechanism. It connects participants aiming to supply hydrogen or derivatives with participants seeking to purchase them.

A call for demand interest is structured in the following phases:

1. Submission phase:

   Suppliers start the process by submitting “supply offers”, including details about their production project information, product and volume (including profile per year), contracting and pricing preferences (optional), delivery locations, contact details.

   Multiple supply offers can be submitted by a single participant (e.g. supply offers linked to different production projects of the participant or different delivery locations).

   Until the end of the submission phase, supply offers are only visible by the submitting participant, allowing it to edit or cancel those offers during this phase.

2. Publication of call for interest

   The Hydrogen Mechanism publishes “information sheets” summarising the supply offers.

   This information is only visible by registered participants who did not submit a supply offer in the submission phase.

3. Expression of interest

   Participants intending to procure hydrogen or derivatives can consult the “information sheets” and “express their interest”.

   When clicking on “Express interest”, the participant will be invited to provide “demand requests”, including details about consumption project information, product and volume (including profile per year), contracting and pricing preferences (optional), delivery locations, contact details. The expression of interest will create a “match” between the two participants. It is non-binding and voluntary. Multiple expressions of interest can be submitted by a single participant.

   To view all the details of a supply offer, participants must express interest in the corresponding information sheet.

   Aggregation: During the expression of interest phase, participants can aggregate submissions, including to lower the difference in volumes in between the demand and supply sides.

   Participants can then express an interest in the aggregation and create a match with the relevant participants and their submissions.

   

4. Results:

   Results are only made available to participants after the closure of the expression of interest phase. Matches can be reviewed under the related round or accessed in the “Matches” section in the left sidebar.

   Participants who submitted supply offers will receive the demand requests from participants who expressed interest in their supply offers.

   Participants who submitted demand requests will receive full access to the corresponding supply offers.

In the Hydrogen Mechanism, Submissions are either:

• “demand requests”, submitted by a participant aiming to procure hydrogen or derivatives
• “supply offers” submitted by a participant aiming to supply hydrogen or derivatives

Both supply offers and demand requests include comparable level of information consisting of:

• General information about the project which will produce or consume hydrogen or derivatives
• Information about the requested or offered product and volume (including profile per year)
• Contracting and pricing preferences
• Delivery locations
• Contact details
• Option to share the submission with financial institutions

Completing certain fields (marked with a red asterisk) is mandatory to allow the submission of the demand request or supply offer.

Optional fields can be left blank but completing them will increase the visibility of the submission on the Hydrogen Mechanism.

Information Sheets are compact anonymised representations of submissions or aggregations used in the call for interest.

They provide a clear, concise, and anonymised overview of key offer characteristics, helping the potential counterparts to understand the scope and relevance of submissions without disclosing sensitive details.

Information Sheets are limited to:

• Total volume
• Average volume
• Project status
• Profile of the volume (tons per year)
• Delivery locations included in the submission
• The “submission highlights”

To facilitate the review of information sheets by potential counterparts, the Hydrogen Mechanism will automatically generate the following “submission highlights”:

No. It is optional to input information on price, but providing this information will increase your chances of being matched. It is also possible to include pricing calculation method and contractual preferences.

Any price information uploaded on the Hydrogen Mechanism is not binding; no contractual obligations arise for the Participant disclosing price information to the Participant to whom it is disclosed.

Participants can submit demand requests or supply offers related to one of the products listed below:

This list may be expanded to other hydrogen products used in the energy sector. Equipment and technological solutions are not included.

Renewable hydrogen corresponds to hydrogen which qualifies as “renewable fuel of non-biological origin” as defined in the Renewable Energy Directive and the relevant delegated acts.

Low-carbon hydrogen corresponds to hydrogen which qualifies as low-carbon fuel as defined in the Hydrogen and decarbonised gas market directive and the relevant delegated acts.

Participants need to specify delivery locations when submitting a demand request (requested delivery location) or a supply offer (offered delivery location).

Only delivery locations in the European Union or in the Energy Community Contracting Parties can be selected.

Participants may select one of the following options:

• European regions (NUTS2): Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), level 2 is a classification used by the European Union to define basic regional units for statistical purposes. In cases where NUTS2 regions are not defined, the delivery location is defined at the national level (such as for Ukraine or Georgia)

• European ports are ports included in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) map library

• European airports are airports included in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) map library, or

• Delivery to a specific address located in the European Union or in the Energy Community Contracting Parties.

• Only one option can be selected for a single submission, but several different delivery locations of the same type can be chosen (for instance, several European regions (NUTS2) or several European ports).

Project information of the participant submitting a supply offer must include information about renewable or low-carbon certifications.

If no certificates are held, participants must at least declare that they plan to obtain a certificate recognised by the European Commission.

The Hydrogen Mechanism will not verify the compliance of hydrogen projects with the EU legislation. The input of correct information on compliance with the EU legislation is the responsibility of participants.

Organisation profile : Only your organisation and its users may access and edit the information in your organisation profile.

During the submission phase : Only your organisation and its users may submit, edit or cancel your submissions.

During the expression of interest phase : all registered participants – who did not participate in the submission phase – can access a limited and anonymised information sheet summarising your submission. These information sheets contain non-sensitive details only.

During the Results phase :

• If you submitted a supply offer: The details of your submissions, including contact information, become accessible to participants who have expressed an interest in your information sheet and are providing you with similar information about their demand.

• If you submitted a demand request: The details of your submissions, including contact information, become accessible to participants whose supply offer you have expressed an interest in.

• In addition, financial institutions who submitted a financial product gain access to your submissions if you selected the “Share submission with financial institution” option. They gain access to the corresponding match if your counterpart also selected the corresponding option.

To manage the Platform, the European Commission has access to information shared by participants of the Hydrogen Mechanism. The information received, exchanged, or transmitted via the Platform will be handled on a strictly need-to-know basis and is subject to the conditions of professional secrecy of Commission officials.

The Energy and Industry Geography Lab is a tool managed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission for geographical data related to energy, industry and infrastructure.

Participants subscribed to the Hydrogen Mechanism can upload certain information from the Energy and Industry Geography Lab directly to their submissions.

The information is limited to publicly available information under the “Hydrogen infrastructure / Funding schemes and programmes” layer of the Energy and Industry Geography Lab, in particular, description of projects included in the list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI)/Projects of Mutual Interest (PMI), supported by the Innovation Fund, designated Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) or included in the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance's pipeline.

Uploading this information is optional and the responsibility of the participants.

In the call for demand interest, participants can place either a supply offer or a demand request.

On the date of the “ Publication of call for interest ”, participants who submitted a supply offer during this call for demand interest will be strictly prevented, for a fixed period, from:

• accessing the information sheets of other supply offers submitted by other participants, and

• submitting demand requests in a future call for interest round

Until the end of the submission phase, participants can delete and edit their supply offers and are not subject to the restrictions above.

The European Commission reserves the right to extend the period mentioned above.

The Hydrogen Mechanism is designed mainly for offtakers and suppliers of hydrogen and its derivatives.

Nevertheless, traders can also participate by selecting the “Trading purposes” option in their project description, describing the projects linked to the trading activities and their strategy.

Similar to other participants, participants selecting the “Trading purposes” can only submit supply offers or demand requests during the round and the participation restrictions described above also apply.

No. The European Commission will not make your activities on the Hydrogen Mechanism public. Your participation and submissions are handled with confidentiality, and details are shared only with other registered participants as necessary for the call for demand interest process.

The European Commission ensures that your data is kept secure and private according to the Platform’s guidelines and policies.

The European Commission may only publish aggregated and anonymised data.

Certain submissions may be marked as “Additional Commission review needed” if certain criteria are met, such as unusually high volumes or large number of submissions from a single participant.

Following the submission phase and the expression of interest phase of the round, the European Commission will perform a limited assessment of these submissions.

The European Commission may reject any submission if it does not correspond to a serious and realistic demand need or supply capacity, if it is made with the intent or effect of manipulating the process under the Platform, or to undermine the Platform's credibility.

Once the round concludes, all participants are invited to connect to the Hydrogen Mechanism and consult their personalised results.

It is the participants’ sole decision and responsibility to engage or not with matched counterparts. The Matches view enables participants to make individual notes and assign a status to individual matches. These notes and status are private and not shared with the counterparts.

Participants may also share feedback with the European Commission (e.g. ideas for improvements, results of negotiations following the matches).

In accordance with Article 54 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1789 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024, the Commission may decide to temporarily exclude offers of hydrogen supplies originating in the Russian Federation or Belarus from being collected through the Hydrogen Mechanism, where necessary to protect the essential security interests or the security of supply of the Union or of a Member State.

Following careful assessment and analysis, and having informed the European Parliament and the Council of the results of this assessment, the Commission has decided to exclude offers of hydrogen supplies originating in the Russian Federation or Belarus from being collected through the Hydrogen Mechanism for a period of one year.

The decision can be consulted here: Implementing decision - EU - 2025/1486 - EN - EUR-Lex