This report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director of GOV, Anna Pietikäinen (Head of the Regulatory Policy Division, REG) and Daniel Trnka (Deputy Head of REG), and the management of Florentin Blanc and Giuseppa Ottimofiore.
The first part of this report, presenting the overall summary of findings and recommendations, was prepared by Vincent van Langen, with significant inputs from Carola Bertone, Florentin Blanc, Céliane Breuyre, Francesco Calisi, Costanza Caputi, Stella Giannisi, Blerta Guzina, Luca Megale, Hamsini Shankar and Giuseppa Ottimofiore. The report was edited by Nick Yannoulopoulos and Eleni Leontidou and prepared for publication by Jennifer Stein.
The successive, seven technical parts of this report were prepared by a team of external experts under the leadership of Stella Giannisi and Hamsini Shankar, including in particular Carola Bertone, Xiaoyu Chen, David Clark, Stella Giannisi, Katerina Kaskantiri, Eleni Leontidou, Tina Leontidou, Paola Russo, Kabir Sabharwal, Hamsini Shankar, Ian Travers and Maiki Yamashita.
The authors and managers wish to acknowledge the contributions of experts Xiaoju Chen, Emmanuel Eckard, Campbell Gemmell, Stella Giannisi, Yehia Khalil, Tina Leontidou, Mira Scholten and Ian Travers, who made major contributions, providing comments, corrections, and editing. The authors are also grateful for the feedback and insights of a panel of international experts, which included Frederic Bouder, Claudio Fecarotta, Campbell Gemmell, Katrina Groth, Pieter van Gelder, Jeroen van der Heijden, Ira Helsloot, Hélène Héron, Andrzej Janowski, Yehia F. Khalil, Srikanth Mangalam, Frank Markert, Donald Macrae, Jose Miguel Bermudez Menendez, Leighanne Moir, Farhad Nazarpour, Christophe Proust, Lida Morawska, Pietro Moretto, Kevin Myers, Nathalie Noël, Christophe Pecoult, Sidonie Ruban, Mira Scholten, Daniel Scholten, Andrei Tchouvelev, Suzuki Tomoya, Ian Travers, and Jonathan Wiener.
Thanks go to colleagues across the OECD Directorate for Public Governance for their feedback and comments, including Camila Saffirio and Andrea Uhrhammer. This report greatly benefited from feedback and review from across the OECD, in particular from Bob Diderich, Head of the Environment Health and Safety Division, and Joseph Cordonnier, Policy Analyst, at the Environment Directorate, and from José Miguel Bermúdez Menéndez, Energy Technology Analyst, at the International Energy Agency.
The OECD Directorate of Public Governance and the Regulatory Policy Division thank the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission (DG REFORM) for its financial contribution in the preparation of the report, as part of a project requested by the Netherlands on Precaution in the energy transition and improved knowledge for hydrogen risk regulation. The action was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by the OECD, in co-operation with the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission.
This document was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union, but the views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the EU’s official opinion. The authors wish to acknowledge the fruitful collaboration throughout the project and ongoing support of Jan van Tol, Coordinator for Risk Policy in the Energy Transition, and his team, in particular Rob Smal and Kees Theune.