{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-emissions-and-verification-regulations-2026/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-emissions-and-verification-regulations-2026/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/995",
  "legislation_title": "The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (Emissions and Verification) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-emissions-and-verification-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Accreditation bodies",
  "text": "(1) A person (“an accreditation body”) must—\n(a) be a full member of the Global Accreditation Cooperation Incorporated, a New Zealand incorporated society with the incorporation number 50223540, and\n(b) meet the requirements specified in a notice published by the Commissioners.\n(2) A notice may, in particular—\n(a) set out technical standards that an accreditation body must meet, including by reference to standards produced by international bodies;\n(b) set out requirements an accreditation body must meet in order to be independent of a verifier;\n(c) make further provision about how an accreditation body must assess whether a verifier is competent to verify relevant emissions in relation to a CBAM good;\n(d) require that an accreditation body visit the premises of a verifier and set out how frequently this should take place;\n(e) set out how an accreditation body should review and quality assure the way in which the verifier verifies emissions data;\n(f) set out when, and how, an accreditation body must reassess the accreditation of a verifier;\n(g) set out how an accreditation body must suspend, revoke or amend an accreditation;\n(h) make provision about the records that an accreditation body must keep.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/995/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:55:29.904882+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}