On 24 August 2026 the European Commission published guidance on CBAM verification and accreditation for verifiers and National Accreditation Bodies, and on the same day it released the procedure that lets verifiers into the CBAM Registry from 1 September 2026. The guidance is written for the people who accredit and perform verification, but the calendar…
The CBAM definitive period has applied since 1 January 2026. It applies to goods listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2023/956 that originate in a third country and are imported into the Union, subject to the Regulation’s scope exclusions and exemptions, including the Article 2a de minimis exemption for the four mass-based sectors. Electricity…
A Council headline on a CBAM scope extension that reads “strengthen CBAM” is easy to misfile. Read fast, and a reporting team hears that the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism changed for everyone this month, that cars and washing machines are now in scope, and that someone needs to start collecting embedded-emissions data on a longer…
Get CBAM indirect emissions wrong and the error does not show up as a rejected file. It shows up later, as a number on a CBAM declaration that you cannot defend, or as a default value you paid for because the supplier data never arrived. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism has moved from its quiet…