Balanced using the natural environment and a care of local community is one of more important objectives of “Victoria” plant.

1. Environmental requirements which should be met by WZK “Victoria” S.A. are based on three main sources:

• rules of law (Act on environment protection, Act on waste, Act on management of the greenhouse gas emissions or other substances)

• administration decisions (the integrated permission)

• civil-law agreements (waste collection agreement)

WZK “Victoria” S.A meet the requirements resulting straight from the rules of law on the question of:

• obligation of getting the suitable administration decisions, permissions

• obligation of paying for the using the environment ( relating to the emissions of dusts and gases into atmosphere)

• obligation of recording the type and size of using the environment

• obligation of recording the emission measuring records

Responsible action based on the highest standards of environment, safety, quality of products and a consequence in realizing the environmental tasks belong to priority tasks of the Company. Victoria’s projects on natural environment protection it is not only an effect of adjusting of the plant to legal regulations of European Union. It is, first of all, own initiative aiming at maximum possible ecological neutrality of Victoria.

Wałbrzyskie Zakłady Koksownicze “Victoria” S.A having in mind minimizing the negative influence on the natural environment consistently carry out the modernization and improvement tasks.

Capital projects in the environment protection within the years of 2010-2012

Main ecological effects of the implementation of new cooling and cleaning gas technology will be:

• new cooling and cleaning system of the gas in which there are no technological waste,

• liquidation of well-worn technological units, ie. the initial cooling and benzol- distillation systems

• air protection: new installation will not emit into the air any harmful substances due to full leak tightness of the technological system with automatic controls, i.e. an leak tightness of the vents with automatic controls of steam and harmful substances sucking into the coking gas pipeline before the separator of pre-coolers

• use of the suitable technical equipment and protecting the environment against a noise; permissible noise level will be kept. The equipment meet the acoustic standards will be installed in order to protect against the noise,

• gas cooling and cleaning installations do not generate harmful interactions like vibration, ionization or electromagnetic radiation,

• use of the pumps with suitable gaskets – 100% protection against emission of pumping the technological fluid,

• implementation of the automation, process controls and monitoring by suitable programmed algorithms and systems will limit to minimum a risk of technological failures, and as a result environment pollution,

• in order to protect against contamination of underground water the equipment and appliances are placed on the trays resistant to chemicals with controlled valves of drainage system of stormy waters. Possible leakages of the technological media are returned to be reworked.

• It has been used the fire and HSE protections according to fire and explosion classification.

• It is ensured a proper waste disposal and recycling required by the laws during the construction and improvements.

Already at the stage of planning the investment processes WZK “Victoria” S.A select the technologies that meet requirements of “The best available techniques (BAT). Directives for the coking plant” and are environment-friendly. They implement the latest technical solutions, keep high standards of production processes and impose on themselves restrictive standards requiring to continuous improvement in all areas of its business activity.