EU CBAM National Authorities: Finding the Right NCA

Status at 16 July 2026: Authority contact details change without notice. Do not publish or

use copied contact details without checking the latest official directory first.

You need to ask an authority about a CBAM authorisation, about certificates, or about a Registry account that will not open. So you look for an email address or a telephone number. It looks like a five-minute directory lookup.

It usually is not. Two questions sit inside that lookup, and a directory only answers the second one. The first question is which Member State is competent for your operator or your declaration. The second is which body inside that Member State handles the thing you are actually asking about.

The body you are looking for is called the national competent authority, usually shortened to NCA. The Commission publishes a list of them.

What the Commission directory contains

The Commission's updated NCA list, dated 26 June 2026, provides authority and contact information for Member States. An entry can give the authority name, the unit or contact point, an email address or telephone number where available, a postal address and the national website.

Some entries show more than one responsible body or contact point. That is not a defect in the list. CBAM responsibilities may be divided across authorisation, certificates, methodology, customs and Registry-access functions, and a Member State can give those functions to different bodies.

Establish the Member State before you open the list

The directory does not decide which Member State is competent for a particular operator or declaration. That determination comes from the applicable CBAM rules and from your own circumstances, not from a contact list.

Once the Member State is settled, open the current Commission directory rather than a saved contact sheet.

Then record the version date of the directory you used. If a contact changes later, or your request is redirected, that one line is your evidence trail.

Route the request by function, not by the authority's name

A country may allocate different CBAM functions to different bodies. A general climate authority may not be the right destination for a Registry access problem. A customs contact may not handle an authorisation question or an emissions-methodology question.

Before you send anything, write the function down in one line: authorisation, certificate administration, customs treatment, emissions methodology or Registry access. Then match that line to the current directory entry and to any national page the entry links to.

If the directory shows several contacts and the division between them is unclear, ask the listed authority to confirm the routing. Do not infer responsibility from the authority's name alone.

Why a copied contact list goes stale

Operational directories change more quickly than legislation. Units are renamed, email addresses move, and responsibilities are redistributed between bodies.

Copy the June list into a client handbook or an internal wiki and you have turned a useful official source into an unmanaged local address book. It keeps looking authoritative long after it stops being correct.

Preserve three things instead: the official locator, the date you checked it, and the contact you actually used. Re-fetch the source before publication, before a referral and before a submission.

One entry as an example: Hungary

For Hungary, the 26 June 2026 directory names the National Climate Protection Authority, or NKVH. That is the position in the 26 June 2026 snapshot.

Take the live CBAM contact and website from the current official PDF, or from the current NKVH site. Do not repeat them from an older copy, including from this article.

Make each contact auditable

For every material interaction, keep a short routing record: the competent Member State, the purpose of the contact, the directory version, the authority or unit selected, the date sent, and the response or redirection.

This is most useful when a matter moves between customs, climate and Registry teams. Without the record, each handover starts the lookup from the beginning.

What to do this week

Replace the local address book with a controlled lookup step. Start from the latest Commission NCA directory, route by function, and save the date and the source used in the engagement file.

Before you publish any authority detail, run the lookup again and remove or update anything that no longer matches.

This article explains the Commission's 26 June 2026 NCA directory. The directory is operational. It is not a rule on substantive CBAM obligations, and every contact detail needs a live check.

Source

Source publication: European Commission, “Updated list of NCAs for CBAM”, dated 26 June 2026.

Source status/class: Official Commission operational directory. Authority names, units, contacts, telephone numbers, addresses and websites are volatile.