The European Commission published guidelines on 24 August for the officials tasked with ensuring the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) functions as intended.
The guidance is for CBAM verifiers, who ensure that the declarations made by producers subject to the levy follow the rules.
It also provides information for the national bodies responsible for accrediting and supervising these verifiers.
The Commission published an overview of these accreditation bodies, and of their remits, on 24 July.
On 21 August, the EU executive shared a user’s manual for the register through which CBAM declarations must be submitted. On 14 August, it also issued a raft of documents for producers based in third countries — those directly affected by CBAM.
This included guidelines for each sector covered by the mechanism: aluminium, steel and iron, hydrogen, cement, fertilisers and electricity.
The Commission also used the summer period to publish an amended version of the default values used to determine the emissions to be attributed to goods for which no verified actual data is available (Excel version available here).
Guidance on CBAM verification and accreditation for verifiers and national accreditation bodies
State-of-play CBAM accreditation
CBAM-UMN-UI-manual-Release-3.2-Declarants-Portal-SfA-v6.00-EN
