The Member State authority designated under CBAM Article 11 to administer specified CBAM functions.
Competent authority is the regulator-facing workflow and authority-routing term for CBAM decisions, authorisations, reviews, and supervisory communications. Evidence must reach the authority that has the legal power to act on that specific workflow.
CBAM Article 3, point 13 defines competent authority by reference to the authority designated by each Member State under Article 11. The definition is CBAM-specific and should not be generalized across all EU regulations without checking the source. WSR context: Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 defines actor, authority, country, route, shipment, and illegal-shipment terms for movements of waste destined for recovery or disposal. Keep this waste-shipment layer separate from ordinary transport, product-import, customs, and facility-operation meanings. EU Conflict Minerals Regulation context: Regulation (EU) 2017/821 defines responsible-sourcing and due-diligence terms for Union importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten, their ores, and gold from conflict-affected and high-risk areas. Keep this source layer separate from generic importer, traceability, competent-authority, and broad CSDDD due-diligence meanings.
Regulation (EU) 2023/956 establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism
the authority designated by each Member State in accordance with Article 11;
Reference: Article 3, point 13
Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 on shipments of waste
(a)in the case of a Member State, the body designated by the Member State concerned pursuant to Article 75; (b)in the case of a third country that is a Party to the Basel Convention of 22 March 1989 on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal (‘the Basel Convention’), the body designated by that country as the competent authority for the purposes of the Basel Convention in accordance with Article 5 thereof; (c)in the case of any country not referred to in either point (a) or point (b), the body that has been designated as the competent authority by the country or region concerned or, in the absence of such designation, the regulatory authority for the country or region, as appropriate, which has jurisdiction over a shipment
Reference: Article 3, point 9
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with CBAM/customs actor-boundary policy: separates authority routing, declaration responsibility, customs territory, EORI identity, facility boundaries, and production-process evidence.
Competent authority is the source-designated public authority responsible for specified CBAM functions in a Member State. It is not a generic regulator label; the relevant authority depends on the legal function, Member State, actor, and decision at issue.
Implementation records should capture authority identifier, jurisdiction, decision record, communication log, Member State, legal function, actor or declarant under supervision, submission event, authorisation status, review outcome, and appeal or correction trail where relevant.
Competent authority is the decision-authority routing layer for CBAM evidence. Authorisation records, declarations, correspondence, and status changes need to be linked to the correct authority so compliance workflows do not treat “the regulator” as one undifferentiated actor.