Article 20 — Sale of CBAM certificates

1. From 1 February 2027, a Member State shall sell CBAM certificates on a common central platform to authorised CBAM declarants established in that Member State. 2. The Commission shall establish and manage the common central platform following a joint procurement procedure between the Commission and the Member States. The Commission and the competent authorities shall have access to the information in the common central platform. 3. The information on the sale and repurchase of CBAM certificates in the common central platform shall be transferred to the CBAM registry at the end of each working day. 4. CBAM certificates shall be sold to authorised CBAM declarants at the price calculated in accordance with Article 21. 5. The Commission shall ensure that each CBAM certificate is assigned a unique identification number upon its creation. The Commission shall register the unique identification number and the price and date of sale of the CBAM certificate in the CBAM registry in the account of the authorised CBAM declarant purchasing that certificate. 5a. The costs incurred in connection with the establishment, operation and management of the common central platform shall be financed by fees payable by authorised CBAM declarants. For the duration of the first joint public procurement contract for the establishment, operation and management of the common central platform, those costs shall initially be borne by the general budget of the Union. To that end, the revenues generated by the fees shall constitute internal assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(3), point (a), of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ). Those revenues shall be assigned to cover the costs of the establishment, operation and management of the common central platform. Any revenue remaining after covering those costs shall be assigned to the Union budget. For the duration of the subsequent joint procurement contracts for the operation and management of the common central platform, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 28, supplementing this Regulation, in order to determine that the fees payable by authorised CBAM declarants shall directly finance the costs of the operation and management of the common central platform. 6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 28 supplementing this Regulation by further specifying the timing, administration, structure and level of fees and other aspects related to the management of the sale and repurchase of CBAM certificates, as well as the organisation and use of the common central platform, seeking coherence with the procedures laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2830 ( 5 ). The delegated acts shall ensure that the organisation and use of the common central platform is cost-efficient, that the level of fees is set so as to strictly cover the relevant costs and that undue administrative costs are avoided.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-09