Accredited CBAM Verifiers: Country-by-Country Accreditation Status (October 2026)

Two CBAM verifier accreditations have been announced as of October 6, 2026, but the Commission's official list of accredited CBAM verifiers has still not been published.

EmiCert S.A. of Athens announced on September 23, 2026 that the Hellenic Accreditation System (ESYD) had extended its accreditation to cover CBAM verification, reportedly the first CBAM-specific accreditation granted anywhere in the world, and Bureau Veritas followed on September 29, 2026 with a group announcement that it has obtained accreditation to provide CBAM verification services, the first of the global testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) majors to announce one.

The Bureau Veritas announcement names no accrediting body, no accredited legal entity, and no sector scope, so it cannot yet be placed in the country table below.

This page tracks the roll-out country by country, drawing on the Commission's dedicated "Verification of CBAM emissions" page (published June 30, 2026), its "State-of-play CBAM accreditation" table, and the European Accreditation (EA) directory, and it is updated as new national accreditation bodies (NABs) join or begin accepting applications.

The seven numbers that summarize the state of play are listed below.

• 24 NABs across the EU and EEA have agreed to provide CBAM verifier accreditation, per the Commission's state-of-play table refreshed September 29, 2026
• 16 NABs are ready to accept applications from candidate verification bodies, per that table's totals row, up from 14 in the September 1, 2026 edition
• 7 NABs have also agreed to accredit verification bodies established outside the EU, and 5 of them are already accepting third-country applications
• 2 accreditations have been announced as of October 6, 2026: EmiCert (Greece, via ESYD, September 23, 2026) and Bureau Veritas (September 29, 2026, with no accrediting body, entity, or scope named in the announcement)
• September 1, 2026 is when verifier registration in the CBAM Registry opened; an accredited verifier must register within two months of receiving accreditation
• September 30, 2026 is the date since which accredited verifiers can obtain working access to the CBAM Registry, the no-earlier-than date set in DG TAXUD's July 31, 2026 follow-up package
• 0 names appear on the Commission's official list of accredited CBAM verifiers as of October 6, 2026: the CBAM verification page still says the list "will be published on this page"

Three regulations govern this process: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551 sets the accreditation standards and the qualification requirements a NAB must apply, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2546 sets the verification principles and report format a verifier must follow, and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2547 sets the emissions-calculation methodology a verifier checks declared data against.

Are Any CBAM Verifiers Accredited Yet?

Yes, two accreditations have been announced as of October 6, 2026, though neither appears on any official list. EmiCert S.A., an Athens-based greenhouse gas verification body that joined CTI Group in 2025, announced on September 23, 2026 that ESYD, Greece's national accreditation body, had extended its accreditation to cover CBAM verification across all six CBAM sectors, reportedly the first CBAM-specific accreditation granted anywhere in the world.

Bureau Veritas followed on September 29, 2026, announcing through its group newsroom that it has obtained accreditation enabling it to provide CBAM verification services, building on its accredited EU ETS verification work and its ISO 14064 and ISO 14067 greenhouse gas verification services.

That makes Bureau Veritas the first of the global TIC majors to announce a CBAM accreditation, but the announcement is thin on the details that matter operationally: it does not name the national accreditation body that granted the accreditation, the Bureau Veritas legal entity that holds it, or the CBAM sectors it covers, so importers cannot yet match it to a specific NAB or scope.

Both accreditations rest on the companies' own announcements for now: the European Commission's dedicated CBAM verification page, published June 30, 2026 to consolidate the verification rules and the accreditation framework in one location, still stated as of October 6, 2026 that the list of accredited CBAM verifiers "will be published on this page," and no list had appeared.

The accreditation-specific guidance gap has closed, though: on August 24, 2026 the Commission published its "Guidance on CBAM verification and accreditation for verifiers and National Accreditation Bodies," and on August 28, 2026 it followed with a procedure document setting out how CBAM verifiers obtain access to the CBAM Registry from September 1, 2026, defining the roles of the verifier, the national accreditation body, the Commission, and the National Competent Authority.

The general guidance package landed earlier: on August 14, 2026 the Commission published ten CBAM guidance documents for the definitive period, including Guidance No 3 on calculating embedded emissions, material that is directly relevant to verifiers.

The gap between the regulation's legal force and an operating verifier market is a timing issue, not a policy gap. CBAM's definitive phase started January 1, 2026, but the accreditation infrastructure only became operational partway through the year: DAkkS, Germany's NAB, opened an early national CBAM accreditation procedure on February 23, 2026, and other NABs have followed at different speeds since. TÜV NORD and most other verification firms active in the EU ETS market still describe themselves as applicants seeking CBAM accreditation; Bureau Veritas moved from applicant to announced accreditation holder with its September 29, 2026 statement, which reflects how quickly that applicant pool can start converting.

CBAM Verifier Accreditation Status by Country

The table below lists every national accreditation body that has agreed to offer CBAM verifier accreditation, per the Commission's "State-of-play CBAM accreditation" table refreshed September 29, 2026 (24 NABs), cross-referenced against the European Accreditation directory.

The September 29, 2026 state-of-play also names four member states whose NABs have not agreed to provide CBAM accreditation: Cyprus (CYS-CYSAB), Estonia (EAC), Ireland (INAB), and Malta (NAB-MALTA). Iceland does not appear on the table at all. Their absence does not exempt importers sourcing through those countries from CBAM obligations; it only means no verifier can currently be accredited through a NAB based there, so declarants will need a verifier accredited by a NAB in another member state.

Which NABs Are Already Accepting CBAM Verifier Applications

Seventeen national accreditation bodies are marked as ready to accept CBAM verifier accreditation applications in the Commission's state-of-play refreshed September 29, 2026, although the document's own totals row counts 16, continuing the off-by-one quirk the September 1, 2026 edition showed (15 marked, 14 counted). Either way, the pool has grown again: ESYD (Greece) and IPAC (Portugal) are the new entrants since the September 1, 2026 edition, and ESYD's switch to ready is consistent with the completed accreditation it announced through EmiCert on September 23, 2026.

1. AA (Austria)
2. BELAC (Belgium)
3. BAS (Bulgaria)
4. DANAK (Denmark)
5. FINAS (Finland)
6. COFRAC (France)
7. DAkkS (Germany)
8. ESYD (Greece)
9. Accredia (Italy)
10. LATAK (Latvia)
11. LA (Lithuania)
12. ILNAS (Luxembourg)
13. RvA (Netherlands)
14. PCA (Poland)
15. IPAC (Portugal)
16. ENAC (Spain)
17. Swedac (Sweden)

Three more NABs have published expected opening dates in the same table: RENAR (Romania) for October 2026, SNAS (Slovakia) for October 2026, and SA (Slovenia) for November 2026.

A candidate verification body applies directly to one of these NABs, not to the European Commission. Bodies already accredited for EU ETS verification under Regulation (EU) 2018/2067 have an advantage in this process: Article 4 and Annex I of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551 direct NABs to take an applicant's existing EU ETS accreditation scope into account, which is why the ETS verification market is widely expected to supply the first wave of accredited CBAM verifiers.

NABs Accrediting Verifiers Based Outside the EU

Seven of the 24 NABs have agreed to accredit verification bodies established outside the EU, a route that matters for the many production installations in China, Turkey, India, and other exporting countries that will eventually need a locally based CBAM verifier. The state-of-play refreshed September 29, 2026 names all seven: COFRAC (France), ESYD (Greece), Accredia (Italy), RvA (Netherlands), PCA (Poland), SNAS (Slovakia), and Swedac (Sweden).

Five of them, all except ESYD and SNAS, are already accepting third-country applications; SNAS expects to start in October 2026, and two NABs have gone further through bilateral agreements: RvA with Turkey's TURKAK and Swedac with Ukraine's NAAU. Until a third-country verifier is accredited through this route, non-EU installations depend on EU-based verifiers traveling for the mandatory physical site visit that the first verification period requires.

When Will the First Accredited CBAM Verifiers Appear?

The first two have appeared, by announcement: EmiCert said on September 23, 2026 that ESYD had accredited it, and Bureau Veritas announced its own accreditation on September 29, 2026, both inside or just past the "around September 2026" window the Commission had signalled, although the Commission's official list had still not been published as of October 6, 2026, so neither accreditation can yet be confirmed from an official source.

Three milestones sit close together around those dates and are easy to confuse:

• CBAM verifier accreditation, granted by a NAB once a body meets the standards in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551
• CBAM Registry registration, which opened September 1, 2026 under Regulation (EU) 2025/2083, requires prospective verifiers to create an EU Login account and register in the CBAM Registry to apply for registration with their National Competent Authority, and must be completed within two months of receiving accreditation per the Commission's August 24, 2026 guidance
• Working registry access for accredited verifiers, which per DG TAXUD's July 31, 2026 follow-up package could start no earlier than September 30, 2026, a date that has now passed, so the access window has been open since September 30, 2026

A fourth date frames the sequence: the Commission's timeline has accredited verifiers issuing their first in-Registry verification reports from January 2027.

DG TAXUD spent late August 2026 completing the paperwork for that window. The Commission held its "Become a CBAM verifier" webinar on July 16, 2026, aimed at applicants including existing EU ETS verifiers, and published the follow-up package (recording and slides) on July 31, 2026, confirming the registration sequence and the no-earlier-than-September-30 access date for accredited verifiers.

On August 24, 2026 it published the "Guidance on CBAM verification and accreditation for verifiers and National Accreditation Bodies," and on August 28, 2026 a procedure document for verifier access to the CBAM Registry that splits the process into two stages: a technical access request through EU Access, approved by the Commission, followed by a registration application in the Registry's O3CI module, decided by the National Competent Authority of the member state where the verifier is accredited.

Our report on the verifier accreditation webinar and the new verification page covers the full rollout from the June 30, 2026 publication of the "Verification of CBAM emissions" page onward, our news report on the September verifier registry registration opening breaks down the registration sequence, and the September 2026 CBAM calendar places the verifier dates within the month's full schedule.

ESYD remains the only NAB with a completed accreditation on record, via EmiCert's September 23, 2026 announcement, because Bureau Veritas has not named the NAB behind its September 29, 2026 accreditation; this tracker will update when the Commission's official list publishes or further accreditations are announced.

How to Choose a Verification Body Before the Official List Publishes

Engage a candidate verification body now rather than waiting for the Commission's official list, because the CBAM verification process itself, from scoping engagement to the mandatory first-period site visit, takes months to complete once a contract is signed. The practical starting point is the pool of firms already accredited for EU ETS verification, since their existing scope is the closest match to CBAM's methodology and the fastest path to CBAM accreditation under the current rules.

EU ETS-Accredited Bodies Are the Likely Starting Pool

Firms that already hold EU ETS verification accreditation under Regulation (EU) 2018/2067 are the candidates most likely to receive early CBAM accreditation, because NABs credit their existing scope toward the CBAM standard. Ask any candidate firm directly whether it has applied for CBAM accreditation, with which NAB, and what its expected accreditation date is; a firm that cannot answer these three questions concretely is not close to being accredited.

What to Ask a Candidate Verifier Now

Confirm these four points before signing an engagement letter with any verification body ahead of formal accreditation.

1. Confirm the firm has an active CBAM accreditation application on file with one of the NABs listed above
2. Confirm coverage of the sectors and countries where your supplying installations operate
3. Confirm the firm's EU ETS accreditation scope, if any, and how it maps to CBAM's methodology
4. Confirm pricing and site-visit logistics for the mandatory physical inspection required in the first verification period

Detailed cost ranges and the full step-by-step verification process for importers are covered in our guide to finding a CBAM verifier and the requirements an authorized CBAM declarant must meet before submitting verified data in the CBAM declaration due September 30, 2027.

Frequently Asked Questions About CBAM Verifier Accreditation

Who Is the First Accredited CBAM Verifier?

EmiCert S.A., a greenhouse gas verification body based in Athens, Greece, and part of CTI Group since 2025. EmiCert announced on September 23, 2026 that ESYD, Greece's national accreditation body, had extended its accreditation to cover CBAM verification across all six CBAM sectors, reportedly the first CBAM-specific accreditation worldwide. A second announcement followed on September 29, 2026, when Bureau Veritas said it had obtained CBAM accreditation, becoming the first global TIC major to do so, though without naming its accrediting body, the accredited entity, or the scope. As of October 6, 2026 both accreditations rest on the companies' own announcements, because the Commission's official list of accredited CBAM verifiers has not yet been published.

What Is the Difference Between CBAM Verifier Accreditation and CBAM Registry Registration?

Accreditation is a NAB's confirmation that a verification body meets the technical standards in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551; registration is the separate step that runs through the CBAM Registry to the National Competent Authority. Registration opened September 1, 2026 under Regulation (EU) 2025/2083, must be completed within two months of receiving accreditation per the Commission's August 24, 2026 guidance, and follows the two-stage procedure the Commission published August 28, 2026: technical access through EU Access, approved by the Commission, then a registration application in the O3CI module, decided by the NCA of the member state of accreditation. The window for working registry access for accredited verifiers has been open since September 30, 2026. Accreditation remains the bottleneck this tracker follows.

Will the Official List of Accredited CBAM Verifiers Be Public?

Yes. The European Commission states that the list of accredited CBAM verifiers will be published on its CBAM verification page once the first accreditations are granted. As of October 6, 2026, that list had still not been published, even though two accreditations had been announced: EmiCert's via ESYD on September 23, 2026 and Bureau Veritas's on September 29, 2026, each per the company's own announcement.

Can a UK or Turkish Verification Body Become an Accredited CBAM Verifier?

Yes, through the third-country route. Seven of the 24 participating NABs have agreed to accredit verification bodies established outside the EU: COFRAC (France), ESYD (Greece), Accredia (Italy), RvA (Netherlands), PCA (Poland), SNAS (Slovakia), and Swedac (Sweden). This is the mechanism a UK-, Turkish-, or other third-country-based firm would use rather than applying to a domestic accreditation regime; RvA additionally holds an agreement with Turkey's TURKAK, and Swedac with Ukraine's NAAU.

Does Verifier Accreditation Affect the September 30, 2027 Declaration Deadline?

Not directly, but it sets the practical window for using actual emissions data. The first CBAM declaration, covering calendar-year 2026 imports, is due September 30, 2027, and any actual emissions data included in that declaration must be verified by an accredited body. With two accreditations announced in late September 2026, registry registration open since September 1, 2026, and the working-access window for accredited verifiers open since September 30, 2026, importers who plan to use actual values instead of default values have just under 12 months as of October 6, 2026 to contract a verifier, complete data collection, and finish the mandatory site visit before the deadline.

Which EU Countries Have No NAB Working on CBAM Accreditation Yet?

Cyprus, Estonia, Ireland, and Malta are the member states whose NABs are listed in the Commission's September 29, 2026 state-of-play as not having agreed to provide CBAM accreditation, and Iceland does not appear on the table at all. Importers sourcing through installations connected to those countries are not exempt from CBAM; they simply need a verifier accredited by a NAB based in one of the 24 countries already listed above.