The EU Council has agreed to expand CBAM to additional industrial products.

CBAM will expand to downstream products — not only basic materials (steel, aluminium, cement, electricity), but also goods with a high share of these materials. The Commission originally proposed adding 180 products — the Council adds more, e.g., forklifts, conveyor systems, machine parts, components of electric motors.

The Commission will have to review the scope of CBAM annually and consider further expansion.

Tightening of reporting requirements: better traceability of CBAM goods, measures against false emissions intensity declarations, and the Commission's authority to address CBAM circumvention.

The purpose is to prevent carbon leakage — the relocation of production outside the EU to countries with weaker climate rules. CBAM currently covers basic materials, which raises costs for EU manufacturers and paradoxically encourages the relocation of those downstream products elsewhere.

The European Parliament should adopt its position in September. Then trilogues will begin.

For Czech manufacturing companies importing semi‑finished goods from third countries, this means: prepare for a significantly broader CBAM scope than you know today.

Source: https://www.esgtoday.com/eu-member-states-agree-to-expand-cbam-carbon-import-tax-to-downstream-products/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eu-member-states-agree-to-expand-cbam-carbon-import-tax-to-downstream-products