A regulatory term referring to the customs administrations of Member States as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013.
Customs authorities matters because several trade and market-access regulations rely on customs actors to supervise declarations, entry into the Union market, and related compliance workflows. In CBAM, the term is imported from the Union Customs Code rather than defined independently.
Regulation (EU) 2023/956 establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism
the customs administrations of Member States as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
Reference: Article 3, point 14
Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code
"customs authorities" means the customs administrations of the Member States responsible for applying the customs legislation and any other authorities empowered under national law to apply certain customs legislation;
Reference: Article 5, point (1)
Customs authorities is a regulatory term used in CBAM and anchored directly in the Union Customs Code; it refers to the customs administrations of the Member States and any other authorities empowered under national law to apply certain customs legislation.
This term matters when companies need to understand which public authorities receive, supervise, or enforce customs-related declarations and import procedures. It affects who handles registration, border formalities, and customs-facing compliance evidence.
For Minespider, customs authorities is an upstream governance term. It helps connect product, trade, and emissions data to the authorities that actually supervise border-facing and customs-adjacent obligations.