The Commission argues that the national policy frameworks “are the main instrument to ensure the coordinated build-up of sufficient alternative fuels infrastructure, including recharging points for electric vehicles and refueling points for natural gas and hydrogen” and that the establishment of those frameworks helps with avoiding the fragmentation of the internal market, due to the coordinated introduction of alternative fuels.
Member states needed to notify their national policy framework by 18 November 2016, yet Romania failed to do so despite a letter of formal notice and a reasoned opinion from the Commission, sent on 15 February and 13 July 2017, respectively.
The Commission stressed that an accelerated deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure is vital for delivering “a clean and competitive mobility to all Europeans,” as the Commission announced in the November 2017 “Clean Mobility Package”.