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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-order-2023/article-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/850",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-order-2023",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Annex 8 inserted",
  "text": "After Annex 7 insert—\n“Annex 8\nBenchmarks\nTable A\nProduct benchmarks without consideration of exchangeability of fuel and electricity for 2021-2025 allocation period\nProduct benchmark\nBenchmark value (allowances/t) for 2021-2025 allocation period\nCoke\n0.217\nSintered ore\n0.157\nHot metal\n1.288\nPre-bake anode\n0.312\nAluminium\n1.464\nGrey cement clinker\n0.693\nWhite cement clinker\n0.957\nLime\n0.725\nDolime\n0.815\nSintered dolime\n1.406\nFloat glass\n0.399\nBottles and jars of colourless glass\n0.290\nBottles and jars of coloured glass\n0.237\nContinuous filament glass fibre products\n0.309\nFacing bricks\n0.106\nPavers\n0.146\nRoof tiles\n0.120\nSpray-dried powder\n0.058\nPlaster\n0.047\nDried secondary gypsum\n0.013\nShort fibre kraft pulp\n0.091\nLong fibre kraft pulp\n0.046\nSulphite pulp, thermo-mechanical and mechanical pulp\n0.015\nRecovered paper pulp\n0.030\nNewsprint\n0.226\nUncoated fine paper\n0.242\nCoated fine paper\n0.242\nTissue\n0.254\nTestliner and fluting\n0.188\nUncoated carton board\n0.180\nCoated carton board\n0.207\nNitric acid\n0.230\nAdipic acid\n2.12\nVinyl chloride monomer (VCM)\n0.155\nPhenol/acetone\n0.230\nS-PVC\n0.066\nE-PVC\n0.181\nSoda ash\n0.753\nTable B\nProduct benchmarks with consideration of exchangeability of fuel and electricity for 2021-2025 allocation period\nProduct benchmark\nBenchmark value (allowances/t) for 2021-2025 allocation period\nRefinery products\n0.0228\nEAF carbon steel\n0.215\nEAF high alloy steel\n0.268\nIron casting\n0.282\nMineral wool\n0.536\nPlasterboard\n0.110\nCarbon black\n1.485\nAmmonia\n1.570\nSteam cracking\n0.681\nAromatics\n0.0228\nStyrene\n0.401\nHydrogen\n6.84\nSynthesis gas (syngas)\n0.187\nEthylene oxide/ethylene glycols\n0.389\nTable C\nHeat and fuel benchmarks for 2021-2025 allocation period\nBenchmark\nBenchmark value (allowances/TJ) for 2021-2025 allocation period\nHeat benchmark\n47.3\nFuel benchmark\n42.6\nWhere no benchmarks are set out in this Annex for the 2026-2030 allocation period, the benchmarks for the 2021-2025 allocation period are to be used.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See article 20 of this Order in relation to the 2024 and 2025 scheme years."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/850/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:42:05.502262+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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