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How it works, step by step

Four processes our tools are built around. Each is shown as the steps you go through, in order, with the free tool that helps at that step. Steps with a dashed edge are yours, or are done somewhere else.

CBAM, for exporters

You make steel, aluminium, cement or fertiliser outside the EU and sell it to an EU buyer.

  1. Step 1: Is your product covered?

    Where we help: Product checker.

  2. Step 2: See what your EU buyer pays without your figures

    Where we help: Cost calculator, Default values by country.

  3. Step 3: Estimate your own emissions

    Where we help: Emissions calculator, Readiness check.

  4. Step 4: Set up your monitoring

    Where we help: Monitoring plan template, Data collection workbook, Letter to your suppliers.

  5. Step 5: Calculate the year's figures per product

    Where we help: Emissions calculator.

  6. Step 6: Have the figures verified

    Where we help: Checklist before the verifier.

    The verifier is an independent accredited body. We do not verify.

  7. Step 7: Send the figures to your buyer

    Where we help: Communication template check, Emissions summary for your buyer, Contract clause.

  8. Step 8: Repeat every year, and watch the dates

    Where we help: Deadlines, Certificate price.

The full flow on CBAM Exporter Pack

CBAM, for EU importers

You bring more than 50 tonnes of CBAM goods a year into the EU.

  1. Step 1: Are your imports covered?

    Where we help: Product checker.

  2. Step 2: Become an authorised CBAM declarant

    Done in the EU's CBAM registry. No tool of ours does it for you.

  3. Step 3: Ask each supplier for its emissions data

    Where we help: Data request to a supplier.

  4. Step 4: Estimate what you will pay

    Where we help: Cost calculator, Compare sources.

  5. Step 5: Buy and hold certificates

    Where we help: Certificate planner.

  6. Step 6: Declare and surrender

    Where we help: Deadlines.

    The declaration itself is filed in the CBAM registry.

The full flow on CBAM Exporter Pack

Selling a product in the EU

You place a consumer or industrial product on the EU market, from inside or outside the EU.

  1. Step 1: Find out which EU rules apply to your product

    Where we help: Rules finder: seven questions.

  2. Step 2: Read what each rule asks of you

    Where we help: Product safety (GPSR), Cyber Resilience Act, Deforestation (EUDR).

  3. Step 3: Name who answers for the product in the EU

    Where we help: Guide: the responsible person, Mandate for a representative.

    We do not act as your representative.

  4. Step 4: Put the required information on the product and the listing

    Where we help: Label generator, Listing check.

  5. Step 5: Keep the files

    Where we help: Guide: technical documentation, Complaint register.

  6. Step 6: Product-specific duties

    Where we help: EUDR plot register, The EUR 3 parcel duty, Legal guarantee notice.

  7. Step 7: When something goes wrong

    Where we help: Recall notice, CRA reporting register and deadlines.

The full flow on EU Rules Finder

A mill test certificate, from arrival to the day someone asks for it

You buy steel, stainless or aluminium and receive its certificate (EN 10204 3.1, MTC, MTR).

  1. Step 1: The certificate arrives

    Your step: a PDF from the mill or the trader.

  2. Step 2: Read it into a table

    Where we help: Heatbook reads the PDF.

    Every value as printed, with its page and the text printed there.

  3. Step 3: Compare with your order

    Where we help: Heatbook compares with the limits you type.

    Inside, outside or cannot tell. It holds no table of any standard.

  4. Step 4: Check what was flagged

    Your step. Lines from scanned pages are marked as not checked.

  5. Step 5: Decide

    Your step. Heatbook never says that material conforms, and does not check that a certificate is genuine.

  6. Step 6: Keep it findable

    With an account every heat goes into a register you can search. Accounts are opening soon.

  7. Step 7: Hand it on

    With an account: one certificate or the whole register as CSV for a spreadsheet. Accounts are opening soon.

The full flow on Heatbook

What the tools do not do

  • They do not verify emissions, certify material or approve a product.
  • They do not act as your declarant, authorised representative or responsible person.
  • They do not file anything with an authority, a registry or a platform.
  • They give general information from the official texts and from your own documents, not legal advice.