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(6) For the purpose of normalising the environmental parameters, the production in km relates to finished optical fibre, excluding any
semi-finished fibre sold as such by the "optical fibre" factories considered in this Report.
(7) The production of “telecom cables” is expressed in km and obtained by summing the production of cables made from optical fibre,
quantified in fibre km, and with those made from copper, quantified in pair km. The decision to use km rather than tonnes to quantify
the total production of telecom cables was taken due to the fact that the unit of measure expressed in length reflects the production
process (and the related impact of environmental parameters) more closely than the unit of measure of production expressed in
weight terms.
(8) Only absolute amounts are reported for Accessories, since normalised units of production are not available for this category. In
particular, the nature of production included in this category various considerably (connectors for cables, accessories for lifts etc.).