About the CBAM Academy
The academy is a technical reference library on the European carbon border adjustment mechanism. It exists because a producer outside the European Union is usually the last person told what the mechanism requires and the first person asked to supply the data.
Who publishes it, and who pays for it
The academy is published independently by Josef Rasuly, and it is supported by Carbon Mandate. Carbon Mandate is a compliance business that prepares carbon border adjustment mechanism reporting for exporters outside the European Union, and its work is expert led and made efficient by software. That support pays for the research time behind these pages.
The declaration sits here and on the legal page because a reader who finds it late trusts the site less than a reader who finds it first. Nothing on the site sells a compliance service, and nothing on the site ranks one. The academy publishes no comparison, no vendor table and no review of any compliance product, because a site supported by a company that sells into that market cannot rank that market honestly.
The method
Every regulatory statement is read in the primary source before it is written. EUR-Lex comes first, then the European Commission’s own guidance and implementing acts, then the national competent authority where a national point is in issue. Nothing is written from a summary, a law firm briefing, a newsletter or another website.
An instrument is cited with its full title and its Official Journal reference, and the page says whether the original or the consolidated text was read and on what date. An article is cited by number and an annex point by annex and point. A statement that cannot be pinned to a provision is rewritten until it can be, or it comes out.
A figure that moves carries three dates: the date it applies from, the date it was read, and the date it was last checked for change. A figure that has not been published is shown as awaited with the date of the last check. No page estimates, interpolates or carries a figure across from a secondary source.
Each page is read again against the sources on a fixed cycle, and the date of that reading appears on the page whether or not anything changed. The site-wide check date was last moved on 13 October 2026.
The author
Josef Rasuly writes the academy. He is the author of a practitioner’s guide to the United Kingdom mechanism and he writes on carbon border regulation for the people who have to comply with it.
The United Kingdom mechanism
The United Kingdom runs a separate mechanism under its own legislation, and it is covered on a separate site atukcbam.com, which the same author publishes. Nothing from that site is repeated here, and a page that covers the same ground covers it from the European instruments.
Where to send a correction
If a page states a position that is wrong against the regulation, write through thecontact form and name the provision. A correction is made on the page and recorded as a dated update.