2.H.2 - Food & Beverages Industry

Emissions occurring in this sector in Germany derive from the following production processes which are analogous to the IPCC category (Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Reference Manual (Volume 3)):

Alcoholic beverages

• Wine
• Beer
• Spirits

Bread and other foods

• Meat, fish and poultry
• Sugar
• Margarine as well as hard and hardened fats
• Cake, cookies and breakfast cereals
• Bread
• Animal feedstuffs
• Coffee roasting

Following pollutants are reported:

• volatile organic compounds (NMVOC),
• particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10 and TSP).

Pursuant to the 1993 Classification of Economic Activities (WZ 93), the food and beverage industry is divided into nine groups and a total of 33 classes. Governmental statistical evaluations are oriented to this classification. The German food industry includes an especially large number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); nearly 80 percent of its companies have fewer than 100 employees, and only 3 per cent have more than 500 employees (BpB, 2002, p.51).

Energy related emissions from the sugar industry are reported under category 1.A.2.e.

The Inventory Database (CSE) lists activity rates (produced amounts) and emission factors for the relevant sectors. The activity rates for the various products / product groups, with the exception of that for feedstuffs, were obtained from the Federal Statistical Office ¹⁾/ ²⁾/ ³⁾

The activity data for feedstuffs were obtained from the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ⁴⁾. The production amounts are serve as activity data, see following table:

For the purpose of international comparability, the inventory team aggregates all products to the common unit of kilotons. These totals can be find in CRF tables and NFR tables as activity data, but this approximately converted figure is not statistically published. The procedure for the uniform reporting of the activity rate shows a high degree of uncertainty due to the very different products of official statistics.

For emissions calculations, country-specific emission factors were used where available. EF were evaluated and updated by a national research study ⁵⁾. Otherwise, the emission factors recommended by IPCC and CORINAIR were used.

All NMVOC emission factors except for beer were perpetuated during the complete time series. The emission factor for beer changed in 2000.

In the following table the EF of TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 are presented.

Emissions of the food and drink industry are reported, in summary form, in the inventory in of the sectoral report for industrial processes. Emissions in detail for the resp. products are presented following tables:

Only one recalculation has been carried out compared to last year's Submission: NMVOC emissions for 2018 due to a correction of AD of spirituous beverages.

For purposes of updating the EF project has started in 2020, but results are planned not before 2021 for the 2022 submission ⁶⁾.