CBAM monitoring plan: free template for your plant

If your EU buyer is to use your actual emissions instead of the EU default values, your installation needs a monitoring plan: the written method for how you measure fuels and materials, calculate emissions and attribute them to your goods. The EU rules set the minimum it must contain and require it in English. An accredited verifier checks your emissions against it.

Point A.5 of Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2547 lists them. The draft uses the same numbers, so your verifier can find each one.

1. Date and version number
2. Description of the installation and its production processes
3. Goods by CN code and functional unit
4. Production processes and routes, and the goods of each
5. Non-CBAM goods, if any
6. Relevant CBAM benchmarks
7. Monitoring methods for each process, with measuring instruments
8. Calculation factors and sampling plan
9. Source streams and emission sources
10. Parameters for the standard or mass balance method
11. Measurement-based methodology, if used
12. Perfluorocarbons from primary aluminium, if relevant
13. Diagram and system boundaries
14. Precursors and their suppliers
15. Zero-rated fuels
16. Measurable heat
17. Electricity produced in the installation
18. Evidence for actual indirect emissions
19. Evidence for electricity imported into the EU
20. Waste gases
21. CO2 capture, storage and use
22. Control system for data quality

• Complete every item marked [TO COMPLETE], and check each "Not applicable".
• Attach the diagram of the installation and process boundaries (element 13).
• Match the data flow to your real records: invoices, meter readings and production logs.
• Keep the records for at least six years after the reporting period.

Next: the verification checklist lists the records a verifier will ask for, and the communication template checker checks your communication template before you send it to buyers.