TÜV AUSTRIA said on 30 October that its Greek subsidiary, TÜV AUSTRIA Hellas, had received accreditation for CBAM verification services from the Hellenic Accreditation System (ESYD), Greece’s national accreditation body. An independent review updated on 2 November found that the public ESYD entry did not yet show the subsidiary’s specific CBAM activity groups.
The review counted five verification bodies with independently traceable national accreditation records, while also noting TÜV AUSTRIA Hellas’s additional accreditation announcement. The missing activity groups did not establish that the subsidiary lacked accreditation; its declared scope had not been independently reconciled with the public national register at the time of the review.
TÜV AUSTRIA Hellas said it had already completed numerous CBAM-related verification projects across industrial sectors and international supply chains. Under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), appropriately accredited independent bodies must carry out verification. Accreditation applies to defined activities and is not automatically interchangeable between sectors. Experience in greenhouse-gas reporting, EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) compliance or ISO-based assurance alone does not establish eligibility to verify every category of CBAM emissions.
Scope checks for exporters
European Commission verification readiness information dated 21 October indicated that 20 national accreditation bodies were ready to accept CBAM accreditation applications. Seven were accepting applications from third-country verification bodies.
For exporters in Serbia, Montenegro, Türkiye and other non-EU markets, the accreditation and scope requirements have practical implications for procurement. A verification services contract should identify the activities covered, the accredited legal entity, the issuing national accreditation body and the scope applicable to the factory’s production processes.
Steel and aluminium manufacturers using complex production routes may need particular care in verifying precursor emissions and allocation methodologies. Electricity-related evidence requires a separate assessment of applicable regulatory verification rules. The development is an additional accreditation announcement and a documented scope-verification issue, not a general relaxation of EU verifier requirements.