ANNEX ISupplementary provisions
ANNEX I Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331 is amended as follows: (1) Section 1 is amended as follows: (a) the heading is replaced by the following: ‘1. Definition of product benchmarks and system boundaries without collection of data on electricity consumption’; (b) the second row on sintered ore is replaced by the following: ‘Agglomerated iron ore Agglomerated iron-bearing product containing iron ore fines, fluxes and possibly iron-containing recycling materials with the chemical and physical properties such as the level of basicity, mechanical strength and permeability required to deliver iron and necessary flux materials into iron ore reduction processes. Expressed in tonnes of agglomerated ore as leaving the agglomerated iron ore production plant. Agglomerated iron ore returned to the production process is not to be considered as part of the product. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production of agglomerated iron ore are included. 0,171’ (c) the third row on hot metal is replaced by the following: ‘Hot metal Iron produced from iron ores for primary steelmaking including (a) liquid iron saturated with carbon for further processing, considered as product of blast furnaces, and expressed in tonnes of liquid iron at the exit point of the blast furnace, excluding liquid iron produced from sponge iron under (b); (b) sponge iron at the exit point of a direct reduced iron reactor, and expressed in tonnes of sponge iron at the exit point of the direct reduced iron reactor. Similar products such as ferroalloys are not covered by this product benchmark. Residual material and by-products are not to be considered as part of the product. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the process units blast furnace, hot metal treatment units, blast furnace blowers, blast furnace hot stoves, direct reduced iron reactor, electric arc furnace and electric smelting furnace for sponge iron, basic oxygen furnace, secondary metallurgy units, vacuum ladles, casting units (including cutting), slag treatment unit, burden preparation, BF and other gas treatment units, dedusting units, scrap pre-heating, coal drying for PCI, vessels preheating stands, casting ingots preheating stands, compressed air production, dust treatment unit (briquetting), sludge treatment unit (briquetting), steam injection in BF unit, steam generation plant, converter BOF gas cooling and miscellaneous are included. 1,328’ (d) the sixth row on grey cement clinker is replaced by the following: ‘Grey cement clinker Grey cement clinker or alternative hydraulic binders for the production of cement, as total amount of hydraulic binder produced. Products produced within the system boundaries of other product benchmarks or as by-product or waste of other production processes are not covered by this benchmark, including fly ash, blast-furnace slag, steel slag, silica fume, paper sludge. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production of grey cement clinker or alternative hydraulic binders are included. 0,766’ (e) the seventh row on white cement clinker is replaced by the following: ‘White cement clinker White cement clinker or alternative hydraulic binders for use as main binding component in the formulation of materials such as joint filers, ceramic tile adhesives, insulation, and anchorage mortars, industrial floor mortars, ready mixed plaster, repair mortars, and water-tight coatings with maximum average contents of 0,4 mass-% Fe 2 O 3 , 0,003 mass-% Cr 2 O 3 and 0,03 mass-% Mn 2 O 3 . Expressed in tonnes of hydraulic binders (as 100 % clinker/alternative hydraulic binders). Products produced within the system boundaries of other product benchmarks or as by-product or waste of other production processes are not covered by this benchmark, including fly ash, blast-furnace slag, steel slag, silica fume, paper sludge. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production of white cement clinker or alternative hydraulic binders are included. 0,987’ (f) the twenty-eighth row on tissue is replaced by the following: ‘Tissue Tissue papers, covering a wide range of tissue and other hygienic papers for use in households or commercial and industrial premises such as toilet paper and facial tissues, kitchen towels, hand towels and industrial wipes, the manufacture of baby nappies, sanitary towels, etc. TAD – Through Air Dried Tissue is not part of this group. Expressed as tonnes of net saleable production of parent reel in air dried tonnes, defined as paper with 6 % moisture content. All processes which are part of the paper production process (in particular paper or board machine and connected energy conversion units (boiler/CHP) and direct process fuel use) are included. Other activities on site that are not part of this process such as sawmilling activities, woodworking activities, production of chemicals for sale, waste treatment (treating waste onsite instead of offsite (drying, pelletising, incinerating, landfilling), PCC (precipitated calcium carbonate) production, treatment of odorous gases, and district heating are not included. The conversion of parent reel to finished products is not part of this product benchmark. 0,334’ (g) the last row on soda ash is replaced by the following: ‘Soda ash Disodium carbonate, expressed in tonnes of soda ash as total gross production except dense soda ash obtained as by-product in a caprolactam production network. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the process units brine purification, limestone calcination and milk of lime production, carbon dioxide reactors, absorption of ammonia, precipitation of NaHCO 3 , filtration or separation of NaHCO 3 crystals from mother liquor, decomposition of NaHCO 3 to Na 2 CO 3 , recovery of ammonia and densification or production of dense soda ash are included. 0,843’ (2) Section 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. Definition of product benchmarks and system boundaries with collection of data on electricity consumption Product benchmark Definition of products covered Definition of processes and emissions covered (system boundaries) Starting point for determination of annual reduction rate for benchmark value update (allowances/t) Refinery products Mix of refinery products with more than 40 % light products (motor spirit (gasoline) including aviation spirit, spirit type (gasoline type) jet fuel, other light petroleum oils/light preparations, kerosene including kerosene type jet fuel, gas oils) expressed as CO 2 weighted tonne (CWT). Refineries with other product mixes are not covered by this product benchmark. All processes of a refinery matching the definition of one of the CWT process units as well as ancillary non-process facilities operating inside the refinery fence-line such as tankage, blending, effluent treatment, etc. are included. Lube oils and bitumen processing units located in mainstream refineries are also included in the refinery CWT and emissions envelope. Process units pertaining to other sectors, such as petrochemicals, are sometimes physically integrated with the refinery. Such process units and their emissions are excluded from the CWT approach. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,0295 EAF carbon steel Steel containing less than 8 % metallic alloying elements and tramp elements to such levels limiting the use to those applications where no high surface quality and processability is required and if none of the criteria for the content of the metal alloying elements and the steel quality for high alloy steel are met. Expressed in tonnes of crude secondary steel ex-caster. Steel produced from iron sponge already covered under the hot metal benchmark is not covered by this benchmark. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the process units electric arc furnace, secondary metallurgy, casting and cutting, post-combustion unit, dedusting unit, vessels heating stands, casting ingots preheating stands, scrap drying and scrap preheating are included. Processes downstream of casting are not included. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,283 EAF high alloy steel Steel containing 8 % or more metallic alloying elements or where high surface quality and processability is required. Expressed in tonnes of crude secondary steel ex-caster. Steel produced from iron sponge already covered under the hot metal benchmark is not covered by this benchmark. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the process units electric arc furnace, secondary metallurgy, casting and cutting, post-combustion unit, dedusting unit, vessels heating stands, casting ingots preheating stands, slow cooling pit, scrap drying and scrap preheating are included. The process units FeCr converter and cryogenic storage of industrial gases are not included. Processes downstream of casting are not included. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,352 Iron casting Casted iron expressed as tonnes of liquid iron ready alloyed, skinned, and ready for casting. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the process steps melting shop, casting shop, core shop and finishing are included. The process step “finishing” refers to operations like fettling but not general matching, heat treatment or painting which are not covered by the system boundaries of this product benchmark. For the purpose of data collection, only the electricity consumption of melting processes within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,325 Mineral wool Mineral wool insulation products for thermal, acoustic and fire applications manufactured using glass, rock or slag. Expressed in tonnes of mineral wool (saleable product). All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production steps melting, fiberizing and injection of binders, curing and drying and forming are included. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,682 Plasterboard The benchmark covers boards, sheets, panels, tiles, similar articles of plaster/compositions based on plaster, (not) faced/reinforced with paper/paperboard only, excluding articles agglomerated with plaster, ornamented (in tonnes of stucco, saleable product). High-density gypsum fibreboards are not covered by this product benchmark. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production steps milling, drying, calcining and board drying are included. For the purpose of data collection, only the electricity consumption of heat pumps applied in the drying stage shall be considered. The production of the intermediary product dried secondary gypsum is not covered by this benchmark. 0,131 Carbon black Furnace carbon black, expressed in tonnes of furnace carbon black, saleable product, purity above 96 %. Gas- and lamp black products are not covered by this benchmark. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production of furnace carbon black as well as finishing, packaging and flaring are included. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. However, only electricity driven devices like pumps and compressors with a rated power of 2 MW or more should be considered. 1,954 Ammonia Ammonia (NH 3 ), expressed in tonnes produced, 100 % purity. Ammonia produced from hydrogen produced by chloralkali electrolysis or by chlorate production is not covered by this benchmark. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production of the ammonia and the intermediate product hydrogen are included. Ammonia production from other intermediate products is not covered. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 1,619 Steam cracking Mix of high value chemicals (HVC) expressed in tonnes as total mass of acetylene, ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene and hydrogen exported out of the cracker perimeter excluding HVC from supplemental feed (hydrogen, ethylene, other HVC) with an ethylene content in the total product mix of at least 30 mass-percent and a content of HVC, fuel gas, butenes and liquid hydrocarbons of together at least 50 mass-percent of the total product mix. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production of high value chemicals as purified product or intermediate product with concentrated content of the respective HVC in the lowest tradable form (raw C4, unhydrogenated pygas) are included except C4 extraction (butadiene plant), C4-hydrogenation, hydrotreating of pyrolysis gasoline & aromatics extraction and logistics/storage for daily operation. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,702 Aromatics Mix of aromatics expressed as CO 2 weighted tonne (CWT). All processes directly or indirectly linked to the aromatics sub-units pygas hydrotreater, benzene/toluene/xylene (BTX) extraction, TDP, HDA, xylene isomerisation, P-xylene units, cumene production and Cyclo-hexane production are included. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,0295 Styrene Styrene monomer (vinyl benzene, CAS number: 100-42-5). Expressed in tonnes of styrene (saleable product). All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production of styrene as well as the intermediate product ethylbenzene (with the amount used as feed for the styrene production) are included. For installations producing both propylene oxide and styrene monomer, the facilities exclusively dedicated to propylene and propylene oxide unit operations are excluded from this benchmark, and shared facilities are covered in proportion to the production in tonnes of the styrene monomer production. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,527 Hydrogen Pure hydrogen and mixtures of hydrogen and carbon monoxide having a hydrogen content ≥ 60 % volume fraction of total contained hydrogen plus carbon monoxide based on the aggregation of all hydrogen and carbon-monoxide-containing product streams exported from the sub-installation concerned expressed as tonnes of 100 % pure hydrogen, as net saleable product. Hydrogen used for ammonia production is not covered by this benchmark but under the ammonia benchmark. Hydrogen produced by chloralkali electrolysis or by chlorate production or released from chemical conversion from hydrogen carriers used to transport hydrogen from production facilities is not covered by this benchmark. All relevant process elements directly or indirectly linked to the production of hydrogen and the separation of hydrogen and car bon monoxide are included. These elements lie between: (a) the point(s) of entry of feedstock(s) and, if separate, fuel(s); (b) the points of exit of all product streams containing hydrogen and/or carbon monoxide; (c) the point(s) of entry or exit of import or export heat. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 8,85 Synthesis gas (syngas) Mixtures of hydrogen and carbon monoxide having a hydrogen content < 60 % volume fraction of total contained hydrogen plus carbon monoxide based on the aggregation of all hydrogen and carbon-monoxide-containing product streams exported from the sub-installation concerned. Expressed in tonnes of synthesis gas referred to 47 volume-percent hydrogen as net saleable product. All relevant process elements directly or indirectly linked to the production of syngas and the separation of hydrogen and carbon monoxide are included. These elements lie between: (a) the point(s) of entry of feedstock(s) and, if separate, fuel(s); (b) the points of exit of all product streams containing hydrogen and/or carbon monoxide; (c) the point(s) of entry or exit of import or export heat. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,242 Ethylene oxide/ethylene glycols The ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol benchmark covers the products ethylene oxide (EO, high purity), monoethylene glycol (MEG, standard grade + fibre grade (high purity)), diethylene glycol (DEG), triethylene glycol (TEG). The total amount of products is expressed in terms of tonnes of EO-equivalents (EOE), which are defined as the amount of EO (in mass) that is embedded in one mass unit of the specific glycol. All processes directly or indirectly linked to the process units EO production, EO purification and glycol section are included. For the purpose of data collection, the total electricity consumption within the system boundaries shall be considered. 0,512 If no other reference is given, all product benchmarks refer to 1 tonne of product produced expressed as saleable (net) production and to 100 % purity of the substance concerned. All definitions of processes and emissions covered (system boundaries) include flares where they occur.’.