All processes directly or indirectly linked to the process units blast furnace, hot metal treatment units, blast furnace blowers, blast furnace hot stoves, basic oxygen furnace, secondary metallurgy units, vacuum ladles, casting units (including cutting), slag treatment unit, burden preparation, BF gas treatment unit, dedusting units, scrap pre-heating, coal drying for PCI, vessels preheating stands, casting ingots preheating stands, compressed air production, dust treatment unit (briquetting), sludge treatment unit (briquetting), steam injection in BF uni ...[+++]t, steam generation plant, converter BOF gas cooling and miscellaneous are included

It must at no price be exploited for reasons of pragmatism or political opportunism, or it will lose its effectiveness in dealing with the root causes of security problems.

the flow of reagent or injection of reagent as close as technically possible to the point of injection into an exhaust aftertreatment system.

Nor should this Directive apply to waste resulting from the offshore prospecting, extraction and treatment of mineral resources or to the injection of water and re‐injection of pumped groundwater, while inert waste, non-hazardous prospecting waste, unpolluted soil and waste resulting from the extraction, treatment and storage of peat should be covered only by a limited set of requirements due to their lower environmental risks.

‘release’ means any introduction of pollutants into the environment as a result of any human activity, whether deliberate or accidental, routine or non-routine, including spilling, emitting, discharging, injecting, disposing or dumping, or through sewer systems without final waste-water treatment.

The Union will urge China to take the following steps to improve the situation: early ratification of the ICCPR and full implementation of both the ICCPR and the ICESCR, ratification of the OP/CAT, enhanced cooperation with the UN human rights mechanisms, limitations on the use of the death penalty, with a view to its abolition, putting an end to the "strike-hard" campaign, addressing the systemic root causes of physical and psychological torture, abolition of restrictions on the formation and activities of independent labour unions, reform of the system of administrative detention, respect of the human rights of all prisoners, including ...[+++] the right to stay silent and not to be subjected to torture, respect of the freedom of expression, religion and belief, reform of the judicial system in order to guarantee individuals the right to fair and open trial, release of political, labour and cyber activists and respect for the cultural and religious rights and freedoms in Tibet and Xinjiang.