Task Participants. Each Task shall be open to all Participants and must have at least two Contracting Parties at any given time. Each Participant shall confirm its intention to participate in a Task by informing the IEA Office of Legal Counsel in the manner requested by the IEA. Those Participants that have confirmed their participation in a specific Task are known as the Task Participants.
Task Participants. The Contracting Parties which are Task Participants in this Annex are the following: Belgium – MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS Canad a – NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA Finland – TEKES NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AGENCY OF FINLAND Germany – FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Italy – XXXXXXXXX NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR) Japan – The JAPAN INSTITUTE OF ENERGY (JIE) Norway – THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY Sweden – THE SWEDISH ENERGY AGENCY (STEM) Switzerland – SWISS FEDERAL OFFICE OF ENERGY (SFOE) United States – U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY