Read the following passage carefully:
Under the 2026 Critical Minerals Conservation Protocol, electronics manufacturing firms are granted operational subsidies only if at least thirty percent of the cobalt used in their production lines originates from certified domestic recycling facilities. To receive certification, a recycling facility must prove that its processing methods emit fewer greenhouse gases per ton of recovered cobalt than the national benchmark for primary mining. Small-scale firms with annual revenues below twenty million rupees are exempt from the mandatory thirty percent quota condition, provided they contribute a fixed annual fee to the Renewable Development Fund. Official reports indicate that small-scale firms paying this fee do not receive operational subsidies, as subsidies are strictly contingent upon meeting the recycling threshold. Furthermore, no non-certified recycling facility has been recorded as achieving a lower greenhouse gas emission profile than the national mining benchmark.
Based strictly on the passage above, which of the following statements must logically be true?
- Any electronics manufacturing firm that receives operational subsidies under the protocol sources a portion of its cobalt from domestic recycling facilities with greenhouse gas emissions per ton lower than the national mining benchmark.Cevap
- BSmall-scale electronics manufacturing firms with annual revenues below twenty million rupees are ineligible to receive operational subsidies even if they fulfill the thirty percent recycling threshold.
- CDomestic recycling of critical minerals reduces total national greenhouse gas emissions more effectively than primary mining across all industrial sectors.
- DContributing a fixed annual fee to the Renewable Development Fund is an implicit prerequisite for large-scale firms attempting to obtain facility certification.