Reg. (EU) 2023/956 · definitive regime since 1 January 2026 · covers iron & steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity.
CBAM’s definitive regime is live: since 1 January 2026, EU importers of covered goods surrender certificates priced against the embedded emissions of what they buy. For UAE exporters — one of the world’s major aluminium producers — this turns carbon data into commercial terms: verified low product emissions mean fewer certificates for your EU customer, default values mean paying a penalty rate for missing data. The exporters who can prove product-level embedded emissions win the order.
EU importers must declare the embedded emissions of covered goods — computed under CBAM methodology, at the installation and product level, not corporate averages.
Where the exporter cannot supply verified actual data, default values apply — set conservatively, so unproven goods carry a higher effective carbon cost than clean, measured ones.
Actual emissions data must stand up to accredited verification — installation boundaries, precursor emissions and production routes documented consistently shipment after shipment.
The declaration lives with the importer, but the evidence lives with you — every consignment needs its production data retrievable when the customer’s verifier asks.
Transitional reporting ran 2023–2025; the definitive regime with certificate surrender began 1 January 2026. Coverage and rules continue to evolve — downstream product extensions are under discussion — so the data capability, not any one report, is the durable asset.
Move from corporate carbon accounting to CBAM-methodology numbers per product and installation — smelter, cast house, rolling mill boundaries drawn the way the regulation draws them.
Your EU customer’s declaration needs your data per consignment. Attach emissions evidence to physical shipments as structured data, not annual PDFs.
UAE aluminium with verified solar-backed intensity is a pricing story in the EU market — but only if the proof travels with the metal.
Aeroz binds identity at the billet, coil or bundle level and attaches verified production data — installation, route, embedded emissions — to each unit in an EPCIS 2.0 log. Your EU customer taps a consignment and pulls the evidence their CBAM declaration needs, and your low-carbon production becomes a checkable claim instead of a brochure line.
Iron and steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity, including many downstream steel and aluminium products — with further extensions under discussion.
The definitive regime began: EU importers now surrender CBAM certificates priced against the EU ETS for embedded emissions, replacing the reporting-only transitional phase.
The certificate cost lands in your price competitiveness. Verified low emissions cut your customer’s CBAM bill; missing data forces default values and makes your metal more expensive than a measured competitor’s.
Yes — with verified actual data reflecting the installation’s real emissions intensity. Without verifiable product-level data, defaults erase the advantage.
A fixed-fee Aeroz audit maps your products against cbam for uae exporters requirements and returns a written readiness assessment, a data-mapping review, and a scoped pilot plan with cost and timeline.