Regulation (EU) 2023/956

means the emissions calculated based on primary data from the production processes of goods and from the production of electricity consumed during those processes as determined in accordance with the methods set out in Annex IV;

means a person authorised by a competent authority in accordance with Article 17;

means the monetary amount paid in a third country, under a carbon emissions reduction scheme, in the form of a tax, levy or fee or in the form of emission allowances under a greenhouse gas emissions trading system, calculated on greenhouse gases covered by such a measure, and released during the production of goods;

means the authority designated by each Member State in accordance with Article 11;

means goods other than simple goods;

means a continental shelf as defined in Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

means the customs administrations of Member States as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;

means a declarant as defined in Article 5, point (15), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 lodging a customs declaration for release for free circulation of goods in its own name or the person in whose name such a declaration is lodged;

means the territory defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;

means a value, which is calculated or drawn from secondary data, which represents the embedded emissions in goods;

means emissions from the production processes of goods, including emissions from the production of heating and cooling that is consumed during the production processes, irrespective of the location of the production of the heating or cooling;

means the number assigned by the customs authority when the registration for customs purposes has been carried out in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;

means direct emissions released during the production of goods and indirect emissions from the production of electricity that is consumed during the production processes, calculated in accordance with the methods set out in Annex IV and further specified in the implementing acts adopted pursuant to Article 7(7);

means the default value, expressed in CO2e, representing the emission intensity of electricity consumed in production of goods;

means the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from the production of goods;

means:

means an exclusive economic zone as defined in Article 55 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and which has been declared as an exclusive economic zone by a Member State pursuant to that convention;

means the allocation of cross-border transmission capacity separate from the trade of electricity;

means goods listed in Annex I;

means greenhouse gases as specified in Annex I in relation to each of the goods listed in that Annex;

means release for free circulation as provided for in Article 201 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;

means either the person lodging a customs declaration for release for free circulation of goods or a bill of discharge in accordance with Article 175(5) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 in its own name and on its own behalf or, where the customs declaration is lodged by an indirect customs representative in accordance with Article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, the person on whose behalf such a declaration is lodged;

means emissions from the production of electricity which is consumed during the production processes of goods, irrespective of the location of the production of the consumed electricity.

means a stationary technical unit where a production process is carried out;

means the intrinsic value for commercial goods as defined in Article 1, point (48), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446;

means the allocation of transmission capacity through a Union system which simultaneously matches orders and allocates cross-zonal capacities as set out in Regulation (EU) 2015/1222;

means a national accreditation body as appointed by each Member State pursuant to Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

means any person that operates or controls an installation in a third country, including a parent company that controls an installation in a third country;

means a natural person, a legal person or any association of persons which is not a legal person but which is recognised under Union or national law as having the capacity to perform legal acts;

means a contract under which a person agrees to purchase electricity directly from an electricity producer;

means the chemical and physical processes carried out to produce goods in an installation;

means goods produced in a production process requiring exclusively input materials (precursors) and fuels having zero embedded emissions;

means the embedded emissions of one tonne of goods, expressed as tonnes of CO2e emissions per tonne of goods;

means 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;

means a country or territory outside the customs territory of the Union;

means one metric tonne of CO2, or an amount of any other greenhouse gas listed in Annex I with an equivalent global warming potential;

means an operator as defined in Article 2, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council.