A result of the destructive distillation of bituminous coal. Coal tar is the liquid by-product of the distillation of coal to make coke in the coke oven process or it is produced from brown coal (low-temperature tar). .

Coal tar can be further distilled into different organic products (e.g. benzene, toluene, naphthalene), which normally would be reported as a feedstock to the petrochemical industry

• Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics
  Place of publication: (Dz. Urz. UE L 304 z 14.11.2008, str. 1, z późn. zm.)