Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures

9.9.2026 A10-0201/112

Amendment 112

Susana Solís Pérez, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pascal Arimont, Dimitris Tsiodras, Matej Tonin, Danuše Nerudová, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Georgiana Teodorescu, Martin Hojsík, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonio LópezIstúriz White, Zala Černilec Tomašič, Asger Christensen, Gabriel Mato, Malika Sorel, Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă, Markus Ferber, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Maria Grapini, Milan Zver, Esther Herranz García, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Dolors Montserrat, Romana Tomc, Jan Farský, Irena Joveva, Giorgio Gori, Fernand Kartheiser, Michalis Hadjipantela, AdrianGeorge Axinia, FrançoisXavier Bellamy, Oliver Schenk, Jeannette Baljeu, Marjan Šarec, Francisco José Millán Mon, ClaudiuRichard Târziu, Elena Donazzan, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Esteban González Pons, Nadine Morano, Andrea Wechsler, Niels Flemming Hansen, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Isabelle Le Callennec, Norbert Lins, Elissavet VozembergVrionidi, Vangelis Meimarakis, Fredis Beleris, Emmanouil Kefalogiannis, Sebastian Tynkkynen, Krzysztof Hetman, DanŞtefan Motreanu, Daniel Buda, Alexandra Mehnert, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Siegfried Mureşan, Jens Gieseke, Ľubica Karvašová, Radan Kanev, Eva Maydell, Ana Miguel Pedro, Elena Nevado del Campo, Eleonora Meleti, Miriam Lexmann, Georgios Aftias

Report A10-0201/2026

Mohammed Chahim

(COM(2025)0989 – C10-0352/2025 – 2025/0419(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Annex III – paragraph 1 – table

Regulation (EU) 2023/956

Annex VIII (new) – table Aliminium

Or. en

9.9.2026 A10-0201/113

Amendment 113

Susana Solís Pérez, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pascal Arimont, Dimitris Tsiodras, Matej Tonin, Danuše Nerudová, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Georgiana Teodorescu, Martin Hojsík, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Antonio LópezIstúriz White, Zala Černilec Tomašič, Asger Christensen, Gabriel Mato, Malika Sorel, Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă, Markus Ferber, Carmen Crespo Díaz, Maria Grapini, Milan Zver, Esther Herranz García, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Maravillas Abadía Jover, Dolors Montserrat, Romana Tomc, Jan Farský, Irena Joveva, Giorgio Gori, Fernand Kartheiser, Michalis Hadjipantela, AdrianGeorge Axinia, FrançoisXavier Bellamy, Oliver Schenk, Jeannette Baljeu, Marjan Šarec, Francisco José Millán Mon, ClaudiuRichard Târziu, Elena Donazzan, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Esteban González Pons, Nadine Morano, Andrea Wechsler, Niels Flemming Hansen, Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Isabelle Le Callennec, Norbert Lins, Elissavet VozembergVrionidi, Vangelis Meimarakis, Fredis Beleris, Emmanouil Kefalogiannis, Sebastian Tynkkynen, Krzysztof Hetman, DanŞtefan Motreanu, Daniel Buda, Alexandra Mehnert, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Siegfried Mureşan, Jens Gieseke, Ľubica Karvašová, Elena Nevado del Campo, Eleonora Meleti, Miriam Lexmann, Georgios Aftias, Ana Miguel Pedro

Report A10-0201/2026

Mohammed Chahim

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures

(COM(2025)0989 – C10-0352/2025 – 2025/0419(COD))

Proposal for a regulation

Annex III a (new) - table

Regulation (EU) 2023/956

Annex VII – point 1 a (new)

Amendment

Or. en

Justification

The threshold introduced through the simplification proposals of Regulation (EU) 2025/2083 opens the CBAM-induced sourcing shift. In order to avoid unintended consequences stemming from the current design of the 50-tonne threshold, this amendment proposes its reduction, as the existing level creates incentives for regulatory arbitrage and trade diversion, enabling customers to source downstream products from third countries without incurring CBAM costs, while EU downstream operators must pay CBAM on their primary aluminium inputs due to the Union’s high structural dependence on imports. This threshold in practice already covers a significant share of orders placed directly with semi-fabricators, as well as the vast majority of orders placed through distributors, thereby amplifying these adverse effects. Lowering the threshold is therefore necessary to ensure a proportionate and effective application of the CBAM, to safeguard its environmental integrity, and to preserve undistorted competition along the aluminium value chain within the internal market