Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331

means the five-year period starting from 1 January 2021 and each subsequent period of five years;

means the five calendar years preceding the time-limit for submission of data to the Commission pursuant to Article 11(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC;

means either of the following:

means the distribution of measurable heat for the purpose of heating or cooling of space or of production of domestic hot water, through a network, to buildings or sites not covered by EU ETS with the exception of measurable heat used for the production of products and related activities or the production of electricity;

means inputs, outputs and corresponding emissions not covered by a product benchmark sub-installation relating to the production, the import from an installation covered by the EU ETS, or both, of measurable heat which is exported for the purposes of district heating;

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.

means inputs, outputs and corresponding emissions not covered by a product benchmark sub-installation, relating to the production of non-measurable heat, by fuel combustion or from electricity, for the primary purpose of the generation of heat, consumed for the production of products, for the production of mechanical energy other than used for the production of electricity, for heating or cooling other than the consumption for the production of electricity, and including safety flaring;

means inputs, outputs and corresponding emissions not covered by a product benchmark sub-installation relating to the production of measurable heat or the import of measurable heat from an installation covered by the EU ETS other than installations covered by the EU ETS only for the purposes of Articles 14 and 15 of Directive 2003/87/EC, or both, which is:

means a thermal energy meter (MI-004) within the meaning of Annex VI to Directive 2014/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council or any other device to measure and record the amount of thermal energy produced based upon flow volumes and temperatures;

means any installation carrying out one or more activities listed in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC or an activity included in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the first time in accordance with Article 24 of that Directive, which obtained a greenhouse gas emission permit before or on:

means a net heat flow transported through identifiable pipelines or ducts using a heat transfer medium, such as, in particular, steam, hot air, water, oil, liquid metals and salts, for which a heat meter is or could be installed;

means a fusion of two or more installations already holding greenhouse gas permits provided that they are technically connected, operate on the same site and the resulting installation is covered by one greenhouse gas permit;

means all heat other than measurable heat;

means greenhouse gas emissions listed in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC other than carbon dioxide, which occur outside the system boundaries of a product benchmark listed in Annex I to this Regulation, or carbon dioxide emissions, which occur outside the system boundaries of a product benchmark listed in Annex I to this Regulation, as a direct and immediate result of any of the following processes and emissions stemming from the combustion of waste gases for the purpose of the production of measurable heat, non-measurable heat or electricity, provided that emissions that would have occurred from the combustion of an amount of natural gas, equivalent to t

means inputs, outputs and corresponding emissions relating to the production of a product for which a benchmark has been set in Annex I;

means the combustion of pilot fuels and highly fluctuating amounts of process or residual gases in a unit open to atmospheric disturbances which is explicitly required for safety reasons by relevant permits for the installation;

means a division of an installation into two or more installations that are covered by separate greenhouse gas permits and are run by different operators.

means temperature of 273,15 K and pressure conditions of 101325 Pa defining normal cubic metres (Nm3) according to Article 3(50) of Regulation (EU) No 601/2012;

means the first day of operations;

means a parameter, associated with the result of the determination of a quantity, that characterises the dispersion of the values that could reasonably be attributed to the particular quantity, including the effects of systematic as well as of random factors, expressed in per cent, and describes a confidence interval around the mean value comprising 95 % of inferred values taking into account any asymmetry of the distribution of values;

means a gas containing incompletely oxidised carbon in a gaseous state under standard conditions which is a result of any of the processes listed in point (10), where ‘standard conditions’ means temperature of 273,15 K and pressure conditions of 101325 Pa defining normal cubic metres (Nm3) according to Article 3(50) of Regulation (EU) No 601/2012;