Clean Industrial Solutions and Aid Framework (CISAF)

📢 On 25 June 2025, the European Commission adopted the Clean Industrial Solutions and Aid Framework (CISAF) — a major step to align State aid rules with the goals of the Clean Industrial Deal.

This new framework provides targeted support for low-carbon fuels, including low-carbon hydrogen, RFNBOs, and synthetic fuels, through structured investment aid schemes.

🔹 What’s new for hydrogen and e-fuels?

The European Commission will consider compatible with the internal market aid measures to support:

• investments for the production of low-carbon fuels
• investments for the production of RFNBOs
• investments in storage for low-carbon fuels that store exclusively low-carbon fuels, or a mix of low-carbon fuels and RFNBOs.

🔹 Key conditions:

• 30% of budgets must be reserved for RFNBOs
• GHG reduction threshold of 70% for low-carbon fuels
• Aid applies only to new capacity
• Schemes must remain open, non-discriminatory, and compliant with the ‘Do No Significant Harm’ principle.

✅ This is a promising signal for project developers and industrial actors across Europe. The CISAF framework may play a critical role in de-risking early investments in the hydrogen economy and scaling up low-carbon fuel production.

➡️ Source: Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CISAF)