Senseible

When can a CBAM operator skip a monitoring method as too costly?

Only with a justification in the monitoring plan, tested against a reference price of €80 per tonne of CO2e and an accumulated limit of €4,000 a year. The Commission's steel guidance sets out this test, and the verifier will check it.

How to use it

  1. Identify the more accurate method you are not using, such as a new meter.
  2. Estimate its cost and the improvement in accuracy.
  3. Write the justification into the monitoring plan.
  4. Keep the workings for the verifier.

What it does not allow

Skipping monitoring altogether. You still need a method for every parameter; the rule only lets you choose a less costly one.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads an exporter's fuel and electricity invoices into dated, fingerprinted records that a monitoring plan and a verifier can trace back to source. Senseible does not verify emissions, register operators in the CBAM Registry or file CBAM declarations.

Sources: European Commission, CBAM Guidance No. 5d, iron and steel, European Commission, CBAM Guidance No. 2, quick guide for non-EU operators (14 August 2026)

Last reviewed 2026-10-23.