Resolves as YES if there is strong evidence that the total route-length of dedicated hydrogen pipelines that are operational in Europe exceeds 5,000 km at any point before January 1st 2033.

Definitions

• Europe (for this market): Pipelines physically located within the territories of EU-27, the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. Cross-border pipelines count only for the portion inside these territories.

• Dedicated hydrogen pipeline: A pipeline whose normal service is transporting gaseous hydrogen as the primary product (i.e., not a hydrogen–natural gas blend).

  • Counts: Newly built hydrogen pipelines and repurposed natural-gas pipelines once they are converted and operating in hydrogen service.

  • Does not count: Pipelines primarily carrying natural gas with hydrogen blending, or internal plant piping entirely within a single industrial site (e.g., behind the fence of one refinery/chemical plant).

• Operational: The pipeline is commissioned and in service (or clearly stated by an authoritative operator/regulator to be in operation as part of the hydrogen transmission/distribution system), not merely planned, permitted, financed, or under construction.

How length is counted

• Use route-kilometers (centerline length) of physical pipeline segments.

• Count each physical segment once (no double-counting for parallel reporting).

Evidence standard and resolution sources

• “Strong evidence” means an authoritative, public statement or dataset (for example: a national energy regulator, transmission system operator(s), an EU institution/observatory, or another widely recognized sector authority) that either:

  1. directly reports >5,000 km operational, or

  2. provides a pipeline list/map/status that clearly sums to >5,000 km operational.

Resolution

• YES if the threshold is met before the deadline by the evidence standard above.

• NO otherwise (including if evidence remains ambiguous or relies only on projections rather than operational status).