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The Implementation of the European Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme : Annex A Activities

Annex A Installations covered by the EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme

Activities Greenhouse Gases
Energy activities
 
  • Combustion installations with a rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW (excepting hazardous or municipal waste installations)
Carbon dioxide
  • Mineral oil refineries
Carbon dioxide
  • Coke ovens
Carbon dioxide

Production & processing of ferrous metals  
  • Metal ore (including sulphide ore) roasting or sintering installations
Carbon dioxide
  • Installations for the production of pig iron or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including continuous casting, with a capacity exceeding 2,5 tonnes per hour

Carbon dioxide
Mineral industry
 
  • Installations for the production of cement clinker in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 500 tonnes per day or lime in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day or in other furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day
Carbon dioxide
  • Installations for the manufacture of glass including glass fibre with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day
Carbon dioxide
  • Installations for the manufacture of ceramic bricks by firing, in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain, with a production capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day, and/or with a kiln capacity exceeding 4 m³ and with a setting density per kiln exceeding 300kg/m³

Carbon dioxide
Other activities

Industrial plants for the production of

 
  • pulp from timber or other fibrous materials
Carbon dioxide
  • paper and board with a production capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day
Carbon dioxide

Note: The threshold values given above generally refer to production capacities or outputs. Where one operator carries out several activities falling under the same subheading in the same installation or on the same site, the capacities of such activities are added together.

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