Eligibility
Article 6
1. Final recipients eligible of support under the Facility shall be established in the EEA. 2. A project shall be eligible for support from the Facility (‘eligible project’) if all of the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) The project concerns a battery cell manufacturing production site, that is in its ramp-up phase at the date of the opening of the call for proposals; (b) The battery cell technology must be suitable for its use in electric vehicles, notwithstanding that the project can have off-takers using the battery cells for other purposes; (c) Projects can include activities related with the manufacturing of the battery modules ( 12 ) , as long as the project main activity concerns the manufacturing of the battery cell. Projects limited to the assembly of battery cells components or stacks, without substantive transformation of those core components, shall be considered not eligible; (d) The project is physically located in the EEA; (e) The planned nominal annual production capacity of the production site is, at least, 10 GWh, at operating conditions assuming 100% overall equipment effectiveness; (f) At the time of application, the project is the first full commercial scale production project of electric vehicle battery cells, at global level, of the final recipient; (g) The majority shareholder of the final recipient shall not have decisive influence on an already operational full commercial production of electric vehicle battery cells at global level, such as in particular the ability to direct strategic and operational decisions due to majority holding in share capital or voting rights; (h) The project shall comply with the ‘do no significant harm’ principle as set out in Article 10f of Directive 2003/87/EC.