Commission Regulation (EC) No 772/2005 of 20 May 2005 concerning the specifications for the coverage of the characteristics and the definition of the technical format for the production of annual Community statistics on steel for the reference years 2003 to 2009 (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

Article 2

The technical format referred to in Article 6.2 of Regulation (EC) No 48/2004 shall be as laid down in Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 3

Member states shall apply these specifications and this technical format with respect to reference year 2003 and subsequent years.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

ANNEX I

COVERAGE OF CHARACTERISTICS

1. YEARLY STATISTICS ON THE STEEL AND CAST IRON SCRAP BALANCE SHEET

Member States will be expected to collect this information from all works which produce iron, steel or products defined as group 27.1 of NACE. Rev. 1.1 and which consume and/or produce scrap. For the first reference year 2003 the Commission will accept that the population covered refers to group 27.1 of NACE Rev.1. A separate questionnaire must be completed for each works even if several of them form part of the same company. Where the works has a locally integrated steel foundry this should be considered an integrated part of the works. Locally integrated works are those under the same management and in the same location. The form applies to rolling mills which directly re-roll used products not usually considered as scrap. All iron and steelworks which have no resources of their own and which therefore buy in their scrap from other works must complete this survey in the same way as producers. As they are not classified in group 27.1 of NACE Rev. 1.1, iron foundries, whether locally integrated or not, and non-integrated steel foundries are excluded.

Scrap is considered to be:

— any iron or steel scrap arising during the production and processing of iron or steel or recovered from old articles of iron or steel which is suitable for remelting (including scrap which is purchased; but not including burnt calcinated castings or castings attacked by acid),

— runners and other steel pouring scrap (normal or bottom-poured), including tunnels and gates, waste from delivery pipes in bottom pouring etc., and also reject and defective ingots not included on production,

— ladle skulls (except from sand casting).

On the other hand, waste containing iron which is significantly contaminated with non-metallic material and which arises during melting or heat treatment or mechanical treatment should not be included under scrap, for example:

— blast-furnace runners,

— launders from casting, splash and other waste from pouring of iron, waste from casting pits,

— steelworks slag,

— scale from reheating furnaces and rolling and forging,

— splatter from converters,

— flue skull and lip skull, skulls and remainders arising from sand casting.

Code : 1010

Stocks on first day of year

Stocks in the whole works including locally integrated activities should be entered in these codes (including steel foundries) with the exception of stocks held in iron foundries.

Code : 1020

Title :

Arising within the works

It includes:

— runners and other casting scrap, from the steelworks and from integrated steel foundries: sprues, dozzle from steel casting. Include faulty and reject ingots not counted in production,

— process scrap is that which arises in the manufacture of semis and rolled products including hire working, also ingot waste and defective ingots and steel casting which are detected as being defective after having left the smelting plant or foundry (i.e. after they have been counted in production of crude or cast steel). Includes scrap arising in locally integrated steel foundries, forges, tube works and wire works, and cold rolling plants, works for metal construction and other departments processing steel, with the exception of iron foundries (See general note 1 above). Mill scrap which is to be re-rolled in own rolling mills does not count as new scrap,

— recovered scrap is steel and cast iron arising from repair and dismantling of old plant, machinery and apparatus, e.g. ingot moulds.

Code : 1030

Receipts (1031 + 1032 + 1033 )

Scrap received via a merchant acting as an intermediary is allocated as appropriate to the sources given as codes 1031 , 1032 and 1033 .

Ship-breaking scrap from demolition yards in the Community should be counted as domestic and Community scrap.

Code : 1031

Receipts from home sources

This includes receipts of scrap from other works or divisions of the same company in the same country, including blast furnaces, steel works, rolling mills, iron foundries (including the integrated iron foundries). Receipts of scrap from other steel companies’ works and from works other than those making or using steel, e.g. mines, should be included.

This also includes receipts of scrap from the domestic market received directly from non-steel companies such as steel or iron foundries, tube works, forges, construction industry, extraction industry, shipyards, railway companies, engineering industry and metal manufacture, etc.

Code : 1032

Receipts from Community countries

This comprises receipts of scrap from other Community countries.

Code : 1033

Receipts from third countries

This comprises receipts of scrap from non-EU (or third) countries

Code : 1040

Total available (1010 + 1020 + 1030 )

Sum of stocks on first day of the year, arising within the works and as receipts.

Code : 1050

Consumption total …

Consumption total shows the total quantities of scrap consumed in the production of iron in blast-furnaces, electric iron-making furnaces and also sinter plants, as well as the total consumption of scrap used in the total production of crude steel including the manufacture of special pig iron by recarburising steel and production of locally integrated steel foundries.

Code : 1051

… of which electric furnaces

Consumption of scrap in the production of steel in electric furnaces.

Code : 1052

… of which stainless scrap

Consumption of stainless scrap containing 10,5 % or more of chromium and not more than 1,2 % of carbon, with or without other alloy elements.

Code : 1060

Deliveries

Report all deliveries of scrap, including to all foundries, even those locally integrated.

Code : 1070

Stocks on last day of year (1040 – 1050 – 1060 )

Stocks in the whole works including locally integrated activities should be entered in these codes (including steel foundries) with the exception of stocks held in iron foundries.

2. FUEL AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND BALANCE SHEET FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY

Plant for load preparation include plant for preparation of burden and sinter plant.

As far as blast furnaces and electric iron making furnaces are concerned, only the consumption of fuel that is directly charged or used in furnaces as substitute for coke, that is, excluding consumption in hot blast stoves, fans and other ancillary blast furnace equipment (to be reported under other plants) is to be taken into account.

Melting shops include steelworks melting shops and continuous casting.

Electricity generating stations include consumption of fuel and energy used to produce all electricity in the works or in the joint generating stations of several steelworks. See also general note No 2.

Member States will be expected to collect this information from all iron and steelworks defined as group 27.1 of NACE Rev. 1.1, including re-rollers and electricity generating stations of the steel industry which are shared between several works and companies. These generating stations should be considered as steelworks of group 27.1 of NACE Rev. 1.1 for the purposes of these statistics.

Electricity generating stations common to several works or steel companies should be included as an entity.

Joint steel industry generating stations should answer the survey directly. Works using the output of these generating stations should not, as to avoid double entries, include these data in their individual replies.

The steelworks should however show in their resources the receipts of electricity from joint generating stations as a total (code 3102 ) among their receipts from outside.

Electricity generating stations linked to other industries, e.g. the coal industry, are excluded.

These mixed plants should be considered in part as electricity generating stations. The fuel consumption should include only that used for production of electrical energy, i.e. excluding the quantities attributable to heat supply.

In part A, enter the consumption of fuel and energy in the iron and steelworks and their auxiliary plants with the exception of coke ovens (blast furnaces, sinter plants, locally integrated steel foundries, rolling mills, etc.).

Include all the consumption by auxiliary plant (for example power stations and steam plant) even if they do not function solely for the iron and steelworks plant.

Exclude workshops integrated with the iron and steelworks whose activities are not covered by group 27.1 of NACE Rev. 1.1.

Code : 2010

Solid fuels (2011 + 2012 )

Solid fuels are to be recorded according to their state on receipt.

Code : 2011

Coke

Includes coke, semi-coke, petroleum coke and coke fines.

Code : 2012

Other solid fuels

Includes coal and agglomerates, lignite and briquettes.

Code : 2020

Liquid fuels

Includes the consumption of all liquid fuels in the iron and steelworks and their auxiliary plant, in electricity generating stations, but with the exception of coke ovens.

Code : 2030

Gas (2031 + 2032 + 2033 + 2034 )

The consumption to be recorded should be net consumption, not including losses and gas burnt off.

Gas consumption is to be recorded in gigajoules (1 gigajoule = 10⁹ joules = 1 gigacalorie/4,186 ) based on the lower calorific value for each gas (for dry gas at 0° and 760 mm/Hg).

Code : 2040

External deliveries of blast furnace gas

It includes total external deliveries of blast furnace gas to public supply, to integrated steel coking plants, to other steelworks and to other customers.

Code : 2050

External deliveries of converter gas

It includes total external deliveries of converter gas to public supply, to integrated steel coking plants, to other steelworks and to other customers.

Code : 3100

Resources (3101 + 3102 )

See specifications for 3101 and 3102 .

Code : 3101

Gross production

Gross production corresponding to the total consumption in electricity generating stations as reported in part A for electricity generating stations.

Code : 3102

Receipts from outside

Outside comprises the public networks, other countries, iron and steelworks (including common generating stations), steelworks coke ovens, locally integrated departments etc.

Code : 3200

Used (3210 + 3220 + 3230 )

Total of line 3200 should correspond to that of line 3100 .

Code : 3210

Consumption by plant (3211 + 3212 + 3213 + 3214 + 3215 + 3216 + 3217 )

Includes the total consumption by plant of lines (3211 + 3212 + 3213 + 3214 + 3215 + 3216 + 3217 ).

Code : 3217

Other plant

Refers to other types of plant as specified in part A.

Code : 3220

Deliveries to outside

See code 3102 .

Code : 3230

Losses

Includes all electric energy losses.

3. ENQUIRY ON INVESTMENTS IN THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY (EXPENDITURE AND CAPACITY)

A separate questionnaire must be completed for each works even if several of them form part of the same company.

Investment expenditure represents investment during the reference period in tangible goods. Included are new and existing tangible capital goods, whether bought from third parties or produced for own use (i.e. capitalised production of tangible capital goods), having a service life of more than one year and including non-produced tangible goods such as land. The threshold for the useful life of a good that can be capitalised may be increased according to company accounting practices where these practices require a greater expected service life than the one-year threshold indicated above.

All investments are valued prior to (i.e. gross of) value adjustments, and before the deduction of income from disposals. Purchased goods are valued at purchase price, i.e. transport and installation charges, fees, taxes and other costs of ownership transfer are included. Own produced tangible goods are valued at production cost. Goods acquired through restructuring process (such as mergers, take-overs, break-ups, spin-off) are excluded. Purchases of small tools which are not capitalised are included under current expenditure.

Also included are all additions, alterations, improvements and renovations which prolong the service life or increase the productive capacity of capital goods.

Current maintenance costs are excluded as is the value and current expenditure on capital goods used under rental and lease contracts.

Concerning the recording of investments where the invoicing, delivery, payment and first use of the good may take place in different reference periods, the following method is proposed as an objective:

— Investments are recorded when the ownership is transferred to the unit that intends to use them. Capitalised production is recorded when produced. Concerning the recording of investments made in identifiable stages, each part-investment should be recorded in the reference period in which it is made.

In practice this may not be possible and company accounting conventions may mean that the following approximations to this method need to be used:

— Investments are recorded in the reference period in which they are delivered,

— investments are recorded in the reference period in which they enter into the production process,

— investments are recorded in the reference period in which they are invoiced,

— investments are recorded in the reference period in which they are paid for,

— investment is not recorded in the balance sheet. However, the additions, disposals and transfers of all fixed assets as well as the value adjustments of these fixed assets are shown in the balance sheet or the notes to the accounts.

Tangible goods are listed in company accounts under ‘Fixed assets — tangible assets’.

Code : 4010

Title :

Coking plant

These include:

— Ovens including coke-oven batteries with ancillary equipment such as charges, pushers, crushers, etc., as well as coke cars and quenching towers,

— ancillary plant.

NB: Under each heading are included plant, buildings and ancillary equipment.

Code : 4020

Plant for load preparation

Includes plant for the preparation of iron ore and burden.

Code : 4030

Plant for iron-making and ferro-alloys (including blast furnaces)

Includes electric pig-iron furnaces, low shaft furnaces and other pre-melting plant, etc.

Code : 4040

Steelworks melting shops

The AOD process, vacuum and ladle treatments, etc. are regarded as treatment subsequent to the final process; the relevant investment expenditure (like all production) must be included in the category covering the appropriate final process.

When the works includes (or will include) a steel melting shop and a mixer, the expenditure relating to the mixer should be included with the corresponding melting shop. If the works has no melting shop, this expenditure should be included with the expenditure relating to the blast furnaces.

Code : 4041

of which electric

Includes EAF process for crude steel production, by electric (arc or induction) furnace.

Code : 4050

Continuous casting

Relates to continuously cast slabs, blooms, billets, beam blanks and tube semis, excluding head and tail crops.

Code : 4060

Rolling mills (4061 + 4062 + 4063 + 4064 )

For each type of rolling mill, account should be taken of not only the expenditure relating to the mill itself, but also of those expenditures relating to plant upstream of the mills (e.g. reheating furnaces) and downstream (e.g. cooling beds, shears). Under the heading ‘Others’ (code 4070 ) are included the expenditures relating to all equipment that does not come under a special mill category apart from coating installations (tinning, zinc-coating, etc.), distinguished at code 4064 .

Expenditure for skin-pass mills should be shown on code 4063 — cold wide strip mill.

Code : 4061

Flat products

This code records expenditure for hot rolling flat products mills.

Code : 4062

Long products

This code records expenditure for hot rolling long products mills.

Code : 4063

Cold wide strip mills

This code records expenditure for cold wide strip mills, continuous or not.

Code : 4064

Coating installations

This code records expenditure for coating installations (coating lines).

Code : 4070

Title :

Other plant

This code includes:

— All the central plants and distribution networks for electric power, gas, water, steam, air and oxygen.

— Transport, engineering workshops, laboratories and all other installations, which form part of the whole works but cannot be classified as part of a particular sector.

— Blooming, slabbing and billet mills when these semi-products are not continuously cast and reported under code 4050 .

Code : 4200

Title :

Of which to combat pollution

Capital expenditures for methods, technologies, processes or equipment designed to collect and remove pollution and pollutants (e.g. air emissions, effluents or solid waste) after their creation, prevent the spread of and measure the level of the pollution, and treat and dispose of pollutants generated by the operating activity of the company.