Emission of dust, nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide from large combustion plants in the EU-27

Units

Percentage

Additional information

Data on large combustion plants covered by the Large Combustion Plants Directive (until 2015) and the Industrial Emissions Directive (as from 2016). Data from Croatia is only available as from 2009, while its influence in the overall EU-27 numbers is negligible. Data as from 2016 includes a small number of additional plants due to changes in the scope of the reporting, so the emissions are not fully comparable before and after 2016.

Methodology

Pollutant releases from Large Combustion Plants (LCPs) reported under E-PRTR/LCP dataflow for the relevant pollutant have been aggregated at EU-27 level and index against 2004 level has been calculated.

Czechia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia did not report any data from 2023: gap-filling performed with 2022 data. Cyprus did not report data for 2024: gap-filling performed with 2023 data.