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Article 26 is amended as follows: paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. An authorised CBAM declarant who fails to surrender, by 30 September of each year, the number of CBAM certificates that corresponds to the emissions embedded in goods imported during the preceding calendar year shall be held liable for the payment of a penalty. Such a penalty shall be identical to the excess emissions penalty set out in Article 16(3) of Directive 2003/87/EC and increased pursuant to Article 16(4) of that Directive, applicable in the year of importation of the goods. Such a penalty shall apply for each CBAM certificate that the authorised CBAM declarant has not surrendered.’ ; the following paragraph is inserted: ‘1a By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, where an authorised CBAM declarant fails to surrender the correct number of CBAM certificates as a result of incorrect information provided by a third party, namely an operator, a verifier or an independent person certifying the carbon price documentation referred to in Article 9(2), the competent authority may reduce the penalty referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. The penalty thus imposed shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and shall take into account in particular the duration, gravity, scope, intentional nature or repetition of the non-compliance or the level of cooperation of the authorised CBAM declarant with the competent authority.’ ; the following paragraph is inserted: ‘2a. Paragraph 2 shall also apply to importers other than authorised CBAM declarants, where they exceed the single mass-based threshold. For that purpose, the entirety of the emissions embedded in the goods imported by such an importer in the relevant calendar year shall be taken into account. The payment of the penalty shall release the importer from the obligation to submit a CBAM declaration and to surrender CBAM certificates in respect of those imports. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, the competent authority may reduce the penalty provided in paragraph 2 of this Article where an importer exceeded the single mass-based threshold by no more than 10 % of that threshold or in cases referred to in Article 17(7a). Such a penalty shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and shall not be lower than the penalty provided in paragraph 1. The payment of the penalty shall release the importer from the obligation to submit a CBAM declaration and to surrender CBAM certificates in respect of those imports.’ ; paragraph 3 is replaced with the following: ‘3. The payment of the penalty in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 1a shall not release the authorised CBAM declarant from the obligation to surrender the outstanding number of CBAM certificates in a given year.’ ; the following paragraph is inserted: ‘4a. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, the competent authority shall calculate the total number of CBAM certificates that should have been surrendered, based on the net mass of the imported goods and by reference to the embedded emissions determined by default values in accordance with the methods set out in Annex IV and taking into account the adjustment for free allocation as referred to in Article 31.’ ;

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.