ANNEX I

Installations or parts of installations used for research, development and testing of new products and processes are not covered by this Directive. Installations where during the preceding relevant five-year period referred to in Article 11(1), second subparagraph, emissions from the combustion of biomass that complies with the criteria set out pursuant to Article 14 contribute on average to more than 95 % of the total average greenhouse gas emissions are not covered by this Directive. The thresholds values given below generally refer to production capacities or outputs. Where several activities falling under the same category are carried out in the same installation, the capacities of such activities are added together. When the total rated thermal input of an installation is calculated in order to decide upon its inclusion in the EU ETS, the rated thermal inputs of all technical units which are part of it, in which fuels are combusted within the installation, shall be added together. Those units may include all types of boilers, burners, turbines, heaters, furnaces, incinerators, calciners, kilns, ovens, dryers, engines, fuel cells, chemical looping combustion units, flares, and thermal or catalytic post-combustion units. Units with a rated thermal input under 3 MW shall not be taken into account for the purposes of this calculation. If a unit serves an activity for which the threshold is not expressed as total rated thermal input, the threshold of this activity shall take precedence for the decision about the inclusion in the ►M9 EU ETS ◄ . When the capacity threshold of any activity in this Annex is found to be exceeded in an installation, all units in which fuels are combusted, other than units for the incineration of hazardous or municipal waste, shall be included in the greenhouse gas emission permit. From 1 January 2012 all flights which arrive at or depart from an aerodrome situated in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies shall be included. Activities | Greenhouse gases ▼M15 Combustion of fuels in installations with a total rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW (except in installations for the incineration of hazardous or municipal waste) From 1 January 2024, combustion of fuels in installations for the incineration of municipal waste with a total rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW, for the purposes of Articles 14 and 15. | Carbon dioxide Refining of oil, where combustion units with a total rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW are operated | Carbon dioxide ▼M4 Production of coke | Carbon dioxide Metal ore (including sulphide ore) roasting or sintering, including pelletisation | Carbon dioxide ▼M15 Production of iron or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including continuous casting, with a capacity exceeding 2,5 tonnes per hour | Carbon dioxide ▼M4 Production or processing of ferrous metals (including ferro-alloys) where combustion units with a total rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW are operated. Processing includes, inter alia, rolling mills, re-heaters, annealing furnaces, smitheries, foundries, coating and pickling | Carbon dioxide ▼M15 Production of primary aluminium or alumina | Carbon dioxide and perfluorocarbons ▼M4 Production of secondary aluminium where combustion units with a total rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW are operated | Carbon dioxide Production or processing of non-ferrous metals, including production of alloys, refining, foundry casting, etc., where combustion units with a total rated thermal input (including fuels used as reducing agents) exceeding 20 MW are operated | Carbon dioxide Production of cement clinker in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 500 tonnes per day or in other furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide Production of lime or calcination of dolomite or magnesite in rotary kilns or in other furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide Manufacture of glass including glass fibre with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide Manufacture of ceramic products by firing, in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain, with a production capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide Manufacture of mineral wool insulation material using glass, rock or slag with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide ▼M15 Drying or calcination of gypsum or production of plaster boards and other gypsum products, with a production capacity of calcined gypsum or dried secondary gypsum exceeding a total of 20 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide ▼M4 Production of pulp from timber or other fibrous materials | Carbon dioxide Production of paper or cardboard with a production capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide ▼M15 Production of carbon black involving the carbonisation of organic substances such as oils, tars, cracker and distillation residues with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide ▼M4 Production of nitric acid | Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide Production of adipic acid | Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide Production of glyoxal and glyoxylic acid | Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide Production of ammonia | Carbon dioxide Production of bulk organic chemicals by cracking, reforming, partial or full oxidation or by similar processes, with a production capacity exceeding 100 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide ▼M15 Production of hydrogen (H2) and synthesis gas with a production capacity exceeding 5 tonnes per day | Carbon dioxide ▼M4 Production of soda ash (Na2CO3) and sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) | Carbon dioxide Capture of greenhouse gases from installations covered by this Directive for the purpose of transport and geological storage in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC | Carbon dioxide ▼M15 Transport of greenhouse gases for geological storage in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC, with the exclusion of those emissions covered by another activity under this Directive | Carbon dioxide ▼M4 Geological storage of greenhouse gases in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC | Carbon dioxide Aviation Flights which depart from or arrive in an aerodrome situated in the territory of a MemberState to which the Treaty applies. This activity shall not include: (a) flights performed exclusively for the transport, on official mission, of a reigning Monarch and his immediate family, Heads of State, Heads of Government and Government Ministers, of a country other than a Member State, where this is substantiated by an appropriate status indicator in the flight plan; (b) military flights performed by military aircraft and customs and police flights; (c) flights related to search and rescue, fire-fighting flights, humanitarian flights and emergency medical service flights authorised by the appropriate competent authority; (d) any flights performed exclusively under visual flight rules as defined in Annex 2 to the Chicago Convention; (e) flights terminating at the aerodrome from which the aircraft has taken off and during which no intermediate landing has been made; (f) training flights performed exclusively for the purpose of obtaining a licence, or a rating in the case of cockpit flight crew where this is substantiated by an appropriate remark in the flight plan provided that the flight does not serve for the transport of passengers and/or cargo or for the positioning or ferrying of the aircraft; (g) flights performed exclusively for the purpose of scientific research or for the purpose of checking, testing or certifying aircraft or equipment whether airborne or ground-based; (h) flights performed by aircraft with a certified maximum take-off mass of less than 5 700 kg; (i) flights performed in the framework of public service obligations imposed in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 on routes within outermost regions, as specified in Article 299(2) of the Treaty, or on routes where the capacity offered does not exceed ►M14 50 000 ◄ seats per year; (j) flights which, but for this point, would fall within this activity, performed by a commercial air transport operator operating either: — fewer than 243 flights per period for three consecutive four-month periods, or — flights with total annual emissions lower than 10 000 tonnes per year. Flights referred to in points (l) and (m) or performed exclusively for the transport, on official mission, of reigning Monarchs and their immediate family, Heads of State, Heads of Government and Government Ministers, of a Member State may not be excluded under this point; ►M11 (k) from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2030, flights which, but for this point, would fall within this activity, performed by a non-commercial aircraft operator operating flights with total annual emissions lower than 1 000 tonnes per year (including emissions from flights referred to in points (l) and (m)); ◄ ►M10 (l) flights from aerodromes situated in Switzerland to aerodromes situated in the EEA; ◄ ►M11 (m) flights from aerodromes situated in the United Kingdom to aerodromes situated in the EEA. ◄ ►M14 Flights between aerodromes that are located in two different States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3) and flights between Switzerland or the United Kingdom and States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3) and, for the purposes of Article 12(6) and (8) and Article 28c, any other flight between aerodromes that are located in two different third countries by aircraft operators that fulfil all of the following conditions: (a) the aircraft operators hold an air operator certificate issued by a Member State or are registered in a Member State, including in the outermost regions, dependencies and territories of that Member State; and (b) they produce annual CO2 emissions greater than 10 000 tonnes from the use of aeroplanes with a maximum certified take-off mass greater than 5 700 kg conducting flights covered by this Annex, other than those departing and arriving in the same Member State, including outermost regions of the same Member State, from 1 January 2021; for the purposes of this point, emissions from the following types of flights shall not be taken into account: (i) State flights; (ii) humanitarian flights; (iii) medical flights; (iv) military flights; (v) firefighting flights; (vi) flights preceding or following a humanitarian, medical or firefighting flight provided that such flights were conducted with the same aircraft and were required to accomplish the related humanitarian, medical or firefighting activities or to reposition the aircraft after those activities for its next activity. ◄ | Carbon dioxide ▼M15 Maritime transport Maritime transport activities covered by Regulation (EU) 2015/757 with the exception of the maritime transport activities covered by Article 2(1a) and, until 31 December 2026, Article 2(1b) of that Regulation | Carbon dioxide From 1 January 2026, methane and nitrous oxide

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