CBAM Pulse

How CBAM Pulse works

CBAM Pulse exists because the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism changes often and the official texts are hard to follow. Turning those texts into something usable only has value if it can be trusted — so the way information is sourced, reviewed, and published follows fixed rules.

Official public sources only

Everything CBAM Pulse publishes traces back to publicly available official sources: the Official Journal of the European Union and EUR-Lex, European Commission publications, and material from National Competent Authorities. Secondary commentary is never treated as a source of record, and in case of any difference the official text prevails.

Every figure carries its source and date

Regulatory values — prices, thresholds, deadlines, scope lists — are shown together with where they were published and the date they take effect. Pages carry a visible last-updated stamp, so you can always judge how current the information is.

Human review before publication

Monitoring official sources for changes can be automated; publishing an interpretation of them is not. Every update in the regulatory feed is reviewed by a person before it is published. Nothing goes live unreviewed, and unconfirmed values are labelled as such rather than presented as official.

Versioned assumptions behind every tool

The tools compute their results from a versioned store of published values, not from numbers typed into the code. When an official value changes, the store is updated with the new version, its source, and its effective date — and tool results reflect exactly which version they used.

Deterministic tools, no AI inference

The tools are deterministic: the same inputs against the same published values always produce the same result. CBAM Pulse does not use AI models to generate answers, classifications, or figures in its tools.

Fixed boundaries

  • It is not legal, tax, customs, or compliance advice, and using it creates no advisory relationship.
  • It is not a CBAM declaration or filing service and has no integration with the CBAM Registry.
  • It does not certify compliance and cannot determine your legal obligations.
  • Proposed legislation is always labelled as a proposal, never presented as adopted law.

Questions about your own obligations belong with a qualified adviser and your National Competent Authority.