The Climate Change Levy (Use as Fuel) Regulations 2001

• Citation: S.I. 2001/1138
• Sections: 45

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Climate Change Levy (Use as Fuel) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

Section 2

For the purposes of paragraph 18(1) of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2000 (climate change levy exemption if commodity supplied for non-fuel use)—

(a) the uses of a taxable commodity that are specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are not to be taken as being uses of that commodity as fuel; and

(b) any uses of a taxable commodity that are not specified in that Schedule are specified by this paragraph as uses that are to be taken as being uses of that commodity as fuel.

Section 1

Electrolysis (electrowinning) used for the production of basic materials directly from an ore or other compound.

Section 2

Use for the purification of materials (as distinct from electrowinning).

Section 3

Use of electrolysis for the manufacture of advanced chemicals from other more basic chemicals.

Section 4

Production of aluminium and copper by electrolysis.

Section 5

The refining of tin or copper from impure metals or ingots.

Section 6

Gold and silver electrolysis and the electrolytic dissolution of platinum group metal alloys.

Section 7

Alkali earth metals, for example, sodium, potassium, lithium and calcium.

Section 8

Chloralkali manufacture (chlorine, caustic soda and caustic potash).

Section 9

Fluorine manufacture.

Section 10

Electro-organic synthesis of fine organics and intermediates such as adiponitrile.

Section 11

Electro-oxidation to produce hydrogen peroxide, persulphates, chlorates and peroxyorganic acids.

Section 12

Sodium chlorate.

Section 13

Potassium permanganate.

Section 14

Potassium dichromate.

Section 15

Manganese dioxide.

Section 16

Cuprous oxide.

Section 17

Sorbitol.

Section 18

Fatty alcohols.

Section 19

The use of natural gas and propane used in steam reformers to produce a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the following production processes:

(a) fertilisers;

(b) OXO (Oxonation) chemicals—detergent and plasticiser alcohols;

(c) phosgene;

(d) ammonia;

(e) higher alcohols, synthetic fuels, plastics precursors;

(f) methanol, methyl tertiary butyl ether, formaldehyde, formic acid, acetic acid, methyl amines, single cell proteins.

Section 20

Natural gas used as a feedstock to produce hydrogen and for hydrogenation reactions.

Section 21

Natural gas used in the production of hydrogen and carbon monoxide for the reduction and subsequent purification of nickel.

Section 22

Coal, coke and natural gas used as a chemical reductant for ironmaking, for example, in blast furnaces.

Section 23

Coke breeze used in a sinter plant to assist in the agglomeration of iron ore and its subsequent chemical reduction in blast furnaces.

Section 24

Coke injected into electric arc furnaces to control the chemistry of the steel and the steelmaking slag.

Section 25

Coke charged to electric arc furnaces to control the oxygen activity of the steel melt.

Section 26

Coke used as a carburiser in iron casting.

Section 27

Gases used for vacuum reduction in metal powder production and to maintain carbon content in metal during the sintering process.

Section 28

Reduction furnaces for the production of lead.

Section 29

Reduction of chlorine.

Section 30

Use to form reducing atmospheres, for example, in the refining and manipulation of molten copper to control oxygen levels. Also use in ASARCO (American Smelting and Refining Company) shaft furnaces, deoxidisation of copper swarf and annealing of copper and copper alloys to provide a reducing atmosphere.

Section 31

Natural gas used as both a fuel and reductant in emission control systems, for example, in the reduction of oxides of nitrogen. Natural gas used in the manufacture of methacrylate monomers and polymers including that natural gas used for emission control which is an integral and essential part of the manufacturing process.

Section 32

Gases used to maintain or increase the carbon content of metals during heat treatment.

Section 33

Anthracite used as a reductant in the smelting of precious metals.

Section 34

Coke as a source of carbon dioxide used in the Ammonia Soda process for the production of soda ash.

Section 35

Use of liquefied petroleum gas as a propellant in aerosols.

Section 36

Methane used as a feedstock in the production of higher paraffins and their derivatives.

Section 37

Natural gas used as a feedstock in the production of acetic acid and acetic anhydride using a partial oxidation process.

Section 38

Use of propylene as a feedstock in the manufacture of propan-2-ol (iso-propyl alcohol), polypropylene and cumene.

Section 39

Petroleum coke used in the manufacture of carbon and graphite electrodes.

Section 40

Natural gas used to provide carbon in the production of carbon-carbon composites.

Section 41

Electricity used in battery formation.

Section 42

Coke used as a resistor in electro-thermal furnaces.

Section 43

Natural gas used in the manufacture of sodium cyanide.