The operating challenge
Connect the moving parts before evidence becomes a bottleneck.
Maintain trusted batch, installation, emissions, supplier, import, and downstream product evidence across material transformations.
Primary buyer
Sustainability, trade compliance, and product stewardship
Representative records
Primary and intermediate metals, ores, scrap, alloys, mines, smelters, rolling and extrusion mills, heats, coils, and imports
Evidence workflow in practice
Connect the customs line to the installation behind its emissions.
Reconcile a steel import with production-route data, verified emissions evidence and the declarant’s annual position.
- EU importerOwns import and declaration data
- Steel producerProvides installation data
- Independent verifierReviews emissions evidence
- CBAM declarantApproves the reporting record
01 InitiateOpen the exact case02 ResolveConnect identity and evidence03 CoordinateCheck, route, and prepare04 DecideKeep human authority05 ActIssue and reuse the outcome
Import line
Open the CBAM workflow from the exact customs line.
- Input
- Customs code, quantity, origin and declarant role
- Control
- The authorized declarant owns scope, declaration and certificate obligations.
- Handoff
- Installation evidence · Steel producer
- Import lineEU importer
The steel import is connected to its installation evidence, governed calculation and approved reporting position.
Workflow boundary
Coverage depends on the current customs scope, role, thresholds and methodology.
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Live platform capabilities
Shape CommonShare around this evidence chain.
Configure these live capability families around the records, contributors, controls, and outputs in your evidence chain.
01. Multi-tier mapping
Connect products, suppliers, facilities, materials, and transactions across tiers.
02. Supplier collaboration
Request structured data and evidence through collaborative supplier workflows.
03. Evidence governance
Extract, version, approve, and preserve documents with a reviewable audit trail.
04. Risk screening
Connect watchlist, sourcing, geography, and documentation signals to the right records.
05. Digital product passports
Publish governed product records through QR experiences and role-based views.
06. Impact calculations
Maintain carbon, PEF, and CBAM calculations in traceable reporting ledgers.
07. Regulation-specific outputs
Prepare controlled statements, evidence rooms, certificates, assessments, and submission data.
Relevant pathways
Start with product, role, and market—not a generic checklist.
Applicability depends on the current law and the specific company, product, material, transaction, and market facts.
ESPR
Iron and steel have an indicative 2026 act; aluminium has an indicative 2027 act.
CBAM
Coverage depends on customs classification, importer role, thresholds, and current rules.
EU Conflict Minerals
The importer regulation covers specified 3TG rather than iron or aluminium generally.
CSDDD
Company scope and chain-of-activities duties require entity-specific review.
EU Forced Labour
The product prohibition applies from 14 December 2027.
UFLPA
Applies to US imports exposed to the statutory presumption.
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Confirm your scope
Apply current legal text and implementing measures to your company role, products, materials, transactions, markets, and facts.