The CBAM facility anchor: a stationary technical unit where a production process is carried out.
Installation is the stationary technical unit where the relevant production process is carried out, making it the site-level anchor for CBAM production and emissions data. It keeps emissions evidence tied to a specific technical unit rather than a company average or broad supplier claim.
CBAM uses installation to tie production-process emissions to a specific facility context. The term should stay connected to the Regulation’s production and embedded-emissions methodology, not broaden into generic site-management language.
Regulation (EU) 2023/956 establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism
a stationary technical unit where a production process is carried out;
Reference: Article 3, point 30
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. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773 adds transitional reporting and calculation context rather than a second formal definition.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773 Article 3(2)(b) requires the installation where goods were produced to be identified by location code, company name, address, English transcript, and geographical coordinates of the main emission source. This turns installation into a practical evidence anchor for CBAM reporting, not just a facility label.
Implementation records should capture installation identifier, operator link, production process, emissions evidence, location, source period, goods category, monitoring method, verification status, and relationship to embedded-emissions calculations.
Installation is the facility-boundary control in the CBAM evidence chain. Product, process, operator, and emissions records need to stay linked to the stationary technical unit that generated the compliance-relevant data.
Transitional-period reporting and calculation rules that support this CBAM term without replacing the formal Regulation (EU) 2023/956 definition.
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