CBAM

CBAM: the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

CBAM (Regulation (EU) 2023/956) applies a carbon price to imports of carbon-intensive goods. It does not require a battery passport, but both depend on credible carbon-footprint data.

Last updated 1 June 2026

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) places a carbon price on imports of certain carbon-intensive goods — cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity and hydrogen — to prevent carbon leakage.

It does not require a battery passport. The connection is the carbon-footprint data: the same rigour CBAM demands for embedded emissions is the rigour the battery passport demands for the battery carbon footprint declaration.

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