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 ESYD’s publicly accessible 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 accreditation announcement. The missing activity groups did not establish that the subsidiary lacked accreditation; rather, its declared scope had not been independently reconciled against the public national register at the time of the review.
TÜV AUSTRIA Hellas said it had already conducted numerous CBAM-related verification projects across different industrial sectors and international supply chains. Under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), verification must be carried out by appropriately accredited independent bodies. Accreditation applies to defined verification activities and is not automatically interchangeable across industrial sectors. Experience in general greenhouse-gas reporting, EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) compliance or ISO-based assurance does not by itself establish eligibility to verify every category of CBAM emissions.
Accreditation scope affects exporter procurement
The European Commission’s verification readiness information, dated 21 October, indicated that 20 national accreditation bodies were ready to accept CBAM accreditation applications. Seven of them were accepting applications from verification bodies based in third countries.
For exporters in Serbia, Montenegro, Türkiye and other non-EU markets, accreditation and scope requirements have practical implications for procuring verification services. A contract should identify the specific 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 when verifying precursor emissions and allocation methodologies. Electricity-related evidence requires a separate assessment of the 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.