Five CBAM verifiers are now documented as accredited: Accredia names three, Swedac adds Intertek

Five verification bodies are now documented as accredited for CBAM, up from the three announcements this site had counted. Swedac, Sweden's accreditation body, accredited Intertek Certification AB on October 13, 2026 (accreditation No. 1639 in Swedac's register). Accredia, Italy's accreditation body, named its first three on October 6, 2026: Bureau Veritas Italia S.p.A., RINA Services S.p.A. and SGS ICS Italia S.r.l. ESYD, Greece's accreditation body, dated its scope annex for EmiCert S.A. September 14, 2026, and EmiCert announced the accreditation on September 23. The European Commission's own list of accredited verifiers was still unpublished on October 13, 2026.

Who is accredited, and who documents it

Three national accreditation bodies document five accredited CBAM verifiers as of October 13, 2026: ESYD in Greece (one), Accredia in Italy (three) and Swedac in Sweden (one). The Roman numerals are activity groups, explained below.

We read ESYD's annex on ESYD's own website on October 13; the copy on EmiCert's accreditations page lists the same groups. Accredia's decision grants all three Italian bodies an extension of an existing accreditation, and its CBAM entries give no certificate number.

This updates our September 29 report on Bureau Veritas, which rested on a group press release that named no accreditation body, legal entity or scope. Accredia now names Bureau Veritas Italia S.p.A. Its committee decided one day before that release, but the release itself does not say which accreditation it meant. SGS named Accredia on October 6 but not the accredited company. RINA Services and Intertek Certification AB are new to our accredited CBAM verifiers tracker.

What the activity groups mean and why they matter

An accreditation covers only the activity groups listed in it, and a verifier has to check each job against them before accepting it. Annex I of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2551 splits CBAM verification into eleven groups. Eight follow the goods: I calcined clay, cement clinker, cement and aluminous cement; II hydrogen and ammonia; III nitric acid; IV urea and mixed fertilisers; V sintered ore, pig iron, direct reduced iron and crude steel; VI ferro-alloys; VII unwrought aluminium; VIII iron or steel products and aluminium products. Three are listed as other activities: L carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS); LI electricity imported into the EU; LII indirect emissions.

That check is a duty under Annex II, section 2.2, of the same regulation. A verifier whose accreditation does not include a good's activity group is not accredited for that work, so an importer should not plan to use its report for actual emissions and would have to declare on default values instead.

Accredia's two texts disagree on RINA and SGS

Accredia has published two different scopes for RINA Services and for SGS ICS Italia, and neither text explains the difference. Its news item of October 6, 2026 lists these groups.

• RINA Services: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, L, LI, LII. Group VIII is absent.
• SGS ICS Italia: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, L, LII. Group LI is absent.

The decision document linked from that page is a revised version marked "Rev. 01", digitally signed on October 9, 2026, which lists these groups.

• RINA Services: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, L, LI, LII. Group VIII is added.
• SGS ICS Italia: I, II, IV, VI, VIII, L, LI, LII. Group LI is added; groups III (nitric acid), V (sintered ore, pig iron, direct reduced iron and crude steel) and VII (unwrought aluminium) are absent.

An earlier version of the same decision document, digitally signed on October 5 and 6, 2026, could still be retrieved from Accredia's website on October 13, although the news item now links only Rev. 01. It matches the news item. Apart from the revision mark and the signatures, the RINA and SGS scope lines are the only differences between the two versions. Bureau Veritas Italia's scope is identical in all three texts.

The news item still showed the earlier scopes on October 13. Neither version of the document says why the scopes changed, and both state that the details of each accreditation are in the body's own accreditation documentation. We do not know which scope the certificates carry. Importers of nitric acid, crude steel, pig iron or unwrought aluminium who plan to use SGS, and importers of steel or aluminium products who plan to use RINA, should ask for the accreditation annex in writing before signing. So should anyone who needs group LI from SGS.

Verifiers outside the EU

Only EU accreditation bodies can accredit CBAM verifiers, including verifiers based outside the EU, and seven of them accept such applicants. The Commission's state-of-play table of October 7, 2026 counts 24 bodies that have agreed to provide CBAM accreditation, 18 ready to accept applications and seven already accepting applicants from third countries: COFRAC (France), ESYD, Accredia, RvA (Netherlands), PCA (Poland), SNAS (Slovakia) and Swedac. It notes an agreement between RvA and Türkiye's TURKAK and one between Swedac and Ukraine's NAAU.

The European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) published EA-6/05 INF on October 5, 2026, an eight-page informative document on how these bodies work with accreditation bodies in third countries. It gives two options: outsource accreditation activities to the local body, or use the local body's personnel, mainly its technical assessors and experts. The process runs in the European body's language, or in English if that body's legal provisions allow. No verifier based outside the EU is documented as accredited yet, so non-EU producers still depend on EU-based bodies.

Two cautions. Swedac's CBAM page says it is "currently prioritising applications from Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom". And the Commission table marks SNAS as ready and accepting third-country applications, while SNAS's own page on October 13 still said it "is preparing the implementation of a CBAM accreditation system" and put the "launch of application intake" in the fourth quarter of 2026. Check with the accreditation body itself.

What is still missing

The Commission has published no list, and we found a documented CBAM accreditation in only three member states. The Commission's CBAM verification page still said on October 13, 2026 that the list "will be published on this page". On the pages we checked that day we found no further accreditation. A search for "CBAM" in Swedac's register returned only Intertek. France's ministry page, updated October 6, says it cannot yet give a date from which values can be verified.

We could not check Germany's accreditation body, because the DAkkS website was closed for maintenance on October 13. Five is the number documented, not necessarily the number that exists.

According to the Commission, accredited verifiers can issue their first verification reports in the CBAM Registry from January 2027. The first CBAM declaration, for 2026 imports, is due by September 30, 2027.

What importers should do now

Match the verifier's accreditation annex to the goods your suppliers make before you sign anything.

1. Identify the activity group of each supplier installation. Indirect emissions are a separate group, LII, and they are declared for cement and fertilisers, so ask a verifier for those goods whether it holds LII.
2. Ask the verifier in writing for the accredited legal entity, the accreditation body, the accreditation number, the activity groups and the validity dates. Check them against the accreditation body's own record where it publishes one.
3. Start early, because the first verification includes a site visit. Our guide to finding a CBAM verifier and the supplier data request generator cover the preparation.

If you have no verifier yet, the CBAM help form is a free introduction request: you describe the job and cbamguide.com looks for providers that fit and introduces you by email.