What goes into a CBAM monitoring methodology document?
It describes how your figures are made: the installation and its production processes, every source stream and emission source, the method and factors used, where each number comes from, who checks it, and how gaps are filled. A verifier reads it first, then tests your records against it.
Sections
- Installation, owner and location.
- Production processes and the goods in each.
- Source streams: fuels and materials, with how each is measured.
- Methods, factors and their sources.
- Data flow from meter or invoice to the final figure.
- Control checks and how missing data is handled.
Keep it real
Write what you actually do. A document that describes meters you do not have will fail the first site visit.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads fuel, power and production records into dated, fingerprinted installation records, the starting point for the actual emissions your EU importer asks for.
Sources: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773, monitoring rules, European Commission, CBAM legislation and guidance, European Commission, CBAM definitive regime
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.