A regulatory term referring to offsetting of CBAM certificates against the declared embedded emissions in imported goods or against the embedded emissi.
Surrender is part of the formal vocabulary used in embedded-emissions reporting, importer obligations, and carbon-border compliance. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2023/956 establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism
offsetting of CBAM certificates against the declared embedded emissions in imported goods or against the embedded emissions in imported goods that should have been declared;
Reference: Article 3, point 25
In practice, this term matters when mapping who is responsible for obligations, declarations, market placement, recordkeeping, or due-diligence steps within embedded-emissions reporting, importer obligations, and carbon-border compliance.
For Minespider, surrender is best treated as a responsibility and workflow term. The important question is which actor, document, or compliance step the source is actually assigning through this definition.