Brussels, 10.12.2025

COM(2025) 986 final

ANNEX

to the

DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

amending Directives 2008/98/EC, 2010/75/EU, (EU) 2015/2193 and (EU) 2024/1785 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards simplification of some requirements and reduction of administrative burden















ANNEX I

1.In Annex I to Directive 2010/75/EU, 

point 2.2 is replaced by the following:

'2.2. Production of iron or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including continuous casting, with a capacity exceeding 2,5 tonnes per hour'; 

2.In Annex Ia to Directive 2010/75/EU,

a)Point 2 is complemented with a third sentence as follows:

‘Rearing activities that are carried out under organic production regimes in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/848 are excluded.’

b)In the first sentence of point 3, the words ‘or laying hens or other poultry categories’ are inserted after ‘excluding rearing of pigs’.

c)Within the section on the LSU level of an installation, ‘Piglets ≤ 20 kg … 0,027’ is replaced by ‘weaners ≤ 20 kg … 0,027’.

3.Annex V to Directive 2010/75/EU is amended as follows: 

(a)in  PART 1, point 6 is amended as follows:

in the table, second column, a footnote (5) is added in the second, third, fifth and sixth rows:

 

NOx

CO

Combustion plants firing natural gas with the exception of gas turbines and gas engines

100

100

Combustion plants firing blast furnace gas, coke oven gas or low calorific gases from gasification of refinery residues, with the exception of gas turbines and gas engines

200(4)(5)

__

Combustion plants firing other gases, with the exception of gas turbines and gas engines

200(4)(5)

__

Gas turbines (including CCGT), using natural gas (1) as fuel

50(2)(3)

100

Gas turbines (including CCGT), using other gases as fuel

120(5)

__

Gas engines

100(5)

100

That footnote reads as follows:

'(5) The emission limit value is not applicable to combustion plants firing gas with more than 20 % (by volume) of hydrogen. In such case, Member States shall ensure that the overall load of NOx eventually released into the air over one year is not increased compared to the situation where the emissions from the installation concerned remained compliant with emission limit values set out in this point for NOx for the combustion of natural gas, without prejudice to stricter measures required pursuant to Article 18.’;

(b)in point 6 of PART 2, the following subparagraph is added at the end of that point: 

'The emission limit value is not applicable to combustion plants firing gas with more than 20 % (by volume) of hydrogen. In such case, Member States shall ensure that the overall load of NOx eventually released into the air over one year is not increased compared to the situation where the emissions from the installation concerned remained compliant with emission limit values set out in this point for NOx , without prejudice to stricter measures required pursuant to Article 18.’;

(c)in PART 4, the following points 3 to 5 are added:

‘3. The results of the measurements shall be standardised at the standardised O2 content mentioned in Part 1 and Part 2 by applying the following formula:

4. When fuel combustion takes places in an oxygen-enriched atmosphere, the results of the measurements can be standardised at an oxygen content laid down by the competent authority reflecting the special circumstances of the individual case. When the emissions of polluting substances are reduced by waste gas treatment, the standardisation with respect to the oxygen contents provided for in point 3 shall be done only if the oxygen content measured over the same period as for the polluting substance concerned exceeds the relevant standard oxygen content.

5. In the case of complete replacement of ambient air with oxygen, the emission limit values referred to in Article 30 shall be regarded as having been complied with if the emissions are not higher than the emissions from the combustion of the given fuel at the standardised O2 content.’.