Newsletter · Issue 1 · 25 September 2026 · the third-quarter CBAM certificate price comes out in October

Issue 1: the third-quarter CBAM certificate price comes out in October

Hi,

This is the first issue. It covers changes to the CBAM acts, new documents on the Commission's CBAM pages, and what we published. This time that means one small correction to an act, one date and seven articles.

In this issue
1
correction to an act
1
date to watch
7
new articles

In the Official Journal

18 September: a corrigendum to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2547 (OJ L 2026/90773) corrects one word in the Dutch text of Annex II point B.2. The English text already read that way, so nothing changes if you work from the English version.

The corrigendum (Dutch only) →

Coming up

2026
OCT
October: the CBAM certificate price for the third quarter of 2026. The Commission calculates it during the first calendar week of the fourth quarter and publishes it on its website on the first working day of the following week (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2548, Article 1(2) and Article 4(1)).

One thing is new: from the third quarter of 2026, the Commission is to make the 2026 quarterly prices available to authorised CBAM declarants in the CBAM registry as well (Article 4(2)). Each price applies to the certificates for embedded emissions declared for 2026, for goods imported in that quarter (Article 1(6)). So the third-quarter figure is the one for goods imported from July to September.

How the price is worked out →

New on the site

23 September 2026
The first accredited CBAM verifier exists. The official list still does not.
What was granted on 14 September, and why the Commission's list is still empty.
22 September 2026
The CBAM downstream extension is not law yet. Here is what Parliament actually voted for.
Parliament adopted its position on 15 September; nothing in Annex I has moved.
22 September 2026
When your precursor comes from more than one installation
Which paragraph of Article 14 produces the figure, and what the report has to say about it.
21 September 2026
Twenty-two elements a CBAM monitoring plan must contain
Grouped by what each one does. The verifier asks for this plan first.
19 September 2026
What an accredited verifier will ask you for, and when
The documents, the 5 % materiality level, and the dates the acts do and do not set.
21 September 2026
What unit your embedded emissions are divided by, and how to tell which one applies
Usually a tonne of the good, with three exceptions: electricity, some fertilisers, and cement clinker with three of the cements.
18 September 2026
Eighteen numbers decide what imported electricity costs, and one rule covers every other country in scope

Questions about how any of this affects your goods? Reply here. I read every email.

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