Which EU authority handles my buyer's CBAM?
The national competent authority of the EU country where your buyer is established. Each member state names one, or splits the role between agencies, in the Commission's list of competent authorities. Your buyer applies for declarant status and buys certificates there, but declarations go through one EU-wide CBAM Registry.
What the authority does
- Grants authorised CBAM declarant status, applied for through the Authorisation Management Module of the CBAM Registry.
- Sells CBAM certificates to declarants established in that country.
- Reviews CBAM declarations with the Commission and imposes penalties where needed.
Authorities by country, for common Indian export markets
- Germany: German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt).
- Netherlands: Dutch Emissions Authority (NEa).
- Italy: ETS Committee (Comitato ETS).
- Belgium: Climate Change Service, Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment.
- Spain: Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO).
- France: Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC).
- Poland: KOBiZE and the Chamber of Tax Administration in Poznań.
What changes for you
Nothing in the data itself. Every authority works from the same rules and the same operator emissions report template, so one verified report serves buyers in every member state.
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.
Sources: European Commission, list of national competent authorities for CBAM (26 June 2026), European Commission, CBAM definitive regime, European Commission, CBAM Registry page
Last reviewed 2026-10-23.