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

An Italian importer above 50 tonnes a year applies for authorised CBAM declarant status in the CBAM Registry. Italy's competent authority is the ETS Committee, based at the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security in Rome. The importer will ask you for verified emissions per tonne and installation details.

How the Italian set-up works

• The Comitato ETS acts as the national authority for CBAM as well as for the EU ETS.
• It can be reached by ordinary email or by certified email (PEC), which Italian firms use for formal filings.
• Where an Italian mill rolls imported billets, the billet supplier's figure becomes a precursor in the mill's own product.

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 Italian 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.

• Brescia mill buying imported billets
• 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.