TÜV AUSTRIA announced 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. The announcement identified the subsidiary as accredited, but a subsequent review of the public register found that its specific CBAM activity groups were not yet displayed.
An independent review updated on 2 November counted five verification bodies with independently traceable national accreditation records, while also noting TÜV AUSTRIA Hellas’s additional accreditation announcement. The absence of the subsidiary’s CBAM activity groups from the public ESYD entry did not establish that it lacked accreditation. It meant 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 carried out numerous CBAM-related verification projects across different industrial sectors and international supply chains. Under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), verification must be performed by appropriately accredited independent bodies. Accreditation covers defined verification activities and is not automatically interchangeable across industrial sectors. Experience in greenhouse-gas reporting, EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) compliance or ISO-based assurance alone does not establish eligibility to verify every category of CBAM emissions.
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 affect the procurement of verification services. Contracts should identify the 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 with complex production routes may need particular care over the verification of precursor emissions and allocation methodologies. Electricity-related evidence requires a separate assessment of 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.
