scope:

This European Standard specifies the principles and requirements for the determination of GHG emissions from sector-specific sources as of the steel and iron, cement, aluminium, lime and ferroalloy producing industry.

This European Standard specifies in particular definitions and rules valid to all above enlisted sectorspecific standards, provides common methodological issues and defines the details for applying the rules for the harmonized methods, which include:

a) measuring, testing and quantifying methods for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the above mentioned sector-specific sources in the cited standards;

b) assessment of the level of GHG emissions performance of production processes over time, at production sites;

c) establishment and provision of reliable, accurate and quality information for reporting and verification purposes.

The application of this standard to the other sector-specific standards in this series ensures accuracy, precision and reproducibility of the obtained results and is for this reason a normative reference standard, umbrella standard respectively.