| No. | Activity | Capacity threshold | Employee threshold (column 2) |
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| 1. | Energy sector |
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| (a) | Mineral oil and gas refineries | * | 10 employees |
| (b) | Installations for gasification and liquefaction | * |
| (c) | Thermal power stations and other combustion installations | With a heat input of 50 megawatts (MW) |
| (d) | Coke ovens | * |
| (e) | Coal rolling mills | With a capacity of 1 ton per hour |
| (f) | Installations for the manufacture of coal products and solid smokeless fuel | * |
| 2. | Production and processing of metals |
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| (a) | Metal ore (including sulphide ore) roasting or sintering installations | * | 10 employees |
| (b) | Installations for the production of pig iron or steel (primary or secondary melting) including continuous casting | With a capacity of 2.5 tons per hour |
| (c) | Installations for the processing of ferrous metals: | |
| (i) | Hot-rolling mills | With a capacity of 20 tons of crude steel per hour |
| (ii) | Smitheries with hammers | With an energy of 50 kilojoules per hammer, where the calorific power used exceeds 20 MW |
| (iii) | Application of protective fused metal coats | With an input of 2 tons of crude steel per hour |
| (d) | Ferrous metal foundries | With a production capacity of 20 tons per day |
| (e) | Installations: | |
| (i) | For the production of non-ferrous crude metals from ore, concentrates or secondary raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic processes | * |
| (ii) | For the smelting, including the alloying, of nonferrous metals, including recovered products (refining, foundry casting, etc.) | With a melting capacity of 4 tons per day for lead and cadmium or 20 tons per day for all other metals |
| (f) | Installations for surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process | Where the volume of the treatment vats equals 30 m3 |
| 3. | Mineral industry |
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| (a) | Underground mining and related operations | * | |
| (b) | Opencast mining | Where the surface of the area being mined equals 25 hectares | |
| (c) | Installations for the production of: |
| (i) | Cement clinker in rotary kilns | With a production capacity of 500 tons per day | 10 employees |
| (ii) | Lime in rotary kilns | With a production capacity exceeding 50 tons per day |
| (iii) | Cement clinker or lime in other furnaces | With a production capacity of 50 tons per day |
| (d) | Installations for the production of asbestos and the manufacture of asbestos-based products | * | |
| (e) | Installations for the manufacture of glass, including glass fibre | With a melting capacity of 20 tons per day | |
| (f) | Installations for melting mineral substances, including the production of mineral fibres | With a melting capacity of 20 tons per day | |
| (g) | Installations for the manufacture of ceramic products by firing, in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain | With a production capacity of 75 tons per day, or with a kiln capacity of 4m3 and with a setting density per kiln of 300 kg/m3 | |
| 4. | Chemical industry |
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| (a) | Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of basic organic chemicals, such as: | | |
| (i) | Simple hydrocarbons (linear or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic) | | |
| (ii) | Oxygen-containing hydrocarbons such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, acetates, ethers, peroxides, epoxy resins | | |
| (iii) | Sulphurous hydrocarbons | | |
| (iv) | Nitrogenous hydrocarbons such as amines, amides, nitrous compounds, nitro compounds or nitrate compounds, nitrites, cyanates, isocyanates | | |
| (v) | Phosphorus-containing hydrocarbons | | |
| (vi) | Halogenic hydrocarbons | | |
| (vii) | Organometallic compounds | | |
| (viii) | Basic plastic materials (polymers, synthetic fibres and cellulose-based fibres) | | |
| (ix) | Synthetic rubbers | | |
| (x) | Dyes and pigments | | |
| (xi) | Surface-active agents and surfactants | | |
| (b) | Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of basic inorganic chemicals, such as: | | |
| (i) | Gases, such as ammonia, chlorine or hydrogen chloride, fluorine or hydrogen fluoride, carbon oxides, sulphur compounds, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen, sulphur dioxide, carbonyl chloride | | |
| (ii) | Acids, such as chromic acid, hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, oleum, sulphurous acids | | |
| (iii) | Bases, such as ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide | | |
| (iv) | Salts, such as ammonium chloride, potassium chlorate, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, perborate, silver nitrate | | |
| (v) | Non-metals, metal oxides or other inorganic compounds such as calcium carbide, silicon, silicon carbide | | |
| (c) | Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of phosphorous-, nitrogen- or potassium-based fertilizers (simple or compound fertilizers) | | |
| (d) | Chemical installations for the production on an industrial scale of basic plant health products and of biocide | | |
| (e) | installations using a chemical or biological process for the production of an industrial scale of basic pharmaceutical products | | |
| (f) | Installations for the production on an industrial scale of explosives and pyrotechnic products | | |
| 5. | Waste and waste-water management | | |
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| (a) | Installations for the incineration, pyrolysis, recovery, chemical treatment or landfilling of hazardous waste | Receiving 10 tons per day | |
| (b) | Installations for the incineration of municipal waste | With a capacity of 3 tons per hour | |
| (c) | Installations for the disposal of non-hazardous waste | With a capacity of 50 tons per day | |
| (d) | Landfills (excluding landfills of inert waste) | Receiving 10 tons per day or with a total capacity of 25,000 tons | 10 employees |
| (e) | Installations for the disposal or recycling of animal carcasses and animal waste | With a treatment capacity of 10 tons per day | |
| (f) | Municipal waste-water treatment plants | With a capacity of 100,000 population equivalents | |
| (g) | Independently operated industrial waste-water treatment plants which serve one or more activities of this annex | With a capacity of 10,000 m3 per day | |
| 6. | Paper and wood production and processing | | |
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| (a) | Industrial plants for the production of pulp from timber or similar fibrous material | * | |
| (b) | Industrial plants for the production of paper and board and other primary wood products (such as chipboard, fibreboard and plywood) | With a production capacity of 20 tons per day | 10 employees |
| (c) | Industrial plants for the preservation of wood and wood products with chemicals | With a production capacity of 50 m3 per day | |
| 7. | Intensive livestock production and aquaculture | | |
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| (a) | Installations for the intensive rearing of poultry or pigs | (i) | With 40,000 places for poultry | 10 employees |
| (ii) | With 2,000 places for production pigs (over 30 kg) |
| (iii) | With 750 places for sows |
| (b) | Intensive aquaculture | 1,000 tons of fish and shellfish per year | |
| 8. | Animal and vegetable products from the food and beverage sector |
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| (a) | Slaughterhouses | With a carcass production capacity of 50 tons per day | 10 employees |
| (b) | Treatment and processing intended for the production of food and beverage products from | |
| | (i) | Animal raw materials (other than milk) | With a finished product production capacity of 75 tons per day |
| | (ii) | Vegetable raw materials | With a finished product production capacity of 300 tons per day (average value on a quarterly basis) |
| (c) | Treatment and processing of milk | With a capacity to receive 200 tons of milk per day (average value on an annual basis) |
| 9. | Other activities |
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| (a) | Plants for the pretreatment (operations such as washing, bleaching, mercerization) or dyeing of fibres or textiles | With a treatment capacity of 10 tons per day | 10 employees |
| (b) | Plants for the tanning of hides and skins | With a treatment capacity of 12 tons of finished product per day |
| (c) | Installations for the surface treatment of substances, objects or products using organic solvents, in particular for dressing, printing, coating, degreasing, waterproofing, sizing, painting, cleaning or impregnating | With a consumption capacity of 150 kg per hour or 200 tons per year |
| (d) | Installations for the production of carbon (hard-burnt coal) or electrographite by means of incineration or graphitization | * |
| (e) | Installations for the building of, and painting or removal of paint from ships | With a capacity for ships 100m long |