How do you determine default values?
The EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) published on 29 September 2023 estimations of GHG emission intensities for goods from four energy-intensive industries – iron and steel, fertilisers, aluminium, and cement in the EU and in its main trading partners. This work provides scientific support to the implementation of the mechanism, as envisaged by the CBAM Regulation.
The JRC report provides the values, disaggregating between direct and indirect emissions. The GHG emission estimations include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide (for some fertiliser goods) and perfluorocarbons (for aluminium goods) linked to the production of the goods listed in Annex I to the CBAM Regulation. The estimated values of the GHG emission intensities (i.e. of the specific embedded emissions) served as an input to for the setting of the default values for the transitional period.
Source: EC’s Questions and Answers on CBAM
CBAM Regulation
CBAM Regulation 2023_956