What does a Belgian importer's CBAM authority mean for an Indian supplier?

Belgian importers above 50 tonnes a year need authorised CBAM declarant status. Belgium handles CBAM at federal level, through the Climate Change Service of the Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. Its guidance comes in Dutch, French and English, and your buyer will still need your installation data.

How the Belgian set-up works

• One federal authority covers the whole country, not the regions.
• It publishes CBAM pages in Dutch, French and English, so a Belgian buyer may send requests in any of the three.
• Hydrogen imports have no 50 tonne exemption, which matters for importers around Antwerp.

What your buyer will ask you for

• The installation that made the goods and the calendar year of production.
• Specific embedded emissions per tonne, with a verification report from an EU-accredited verifier if actual data is used.
• The data for the free allocation adjustment and, where one applies, the carbon price paid in India.

If you cannot send verified data

Your buyer can still declare using the Commission's default values, which carry a mark-up and usually cost more. A Belgian buyer facing that bill will push for your actual figures or compare you with suppliers who have them.

What Senseible does here

Senseible keeps supplier invoices and the emissions data that comes with them in one dated, fingerprinted record per shipment, and its CBAM cost calculator estimates certificate cost from 2026 to 2034. Senseible does not verify emissions, register declarants or file CBAM declarations.

• Antwerp hydrogen and the 50 tonne rule
• Which EU authority handles your buyer
• What Indian exporters send and when

Sources: European Commission, list of national competent authorities for CBAM (26 June 2026), European Commission, CBAM Guidance No. 1, introduction to CBAM concepts (definitive period), European Commission, CBAM definitive regime

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.