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JUST IN: The European Commission published a law this morning that lets an email chain prove where a shipment of steel was melted, and from 1st October it binds all 27 European Union countries at once. It is a regulation, not a directive, so it applies directly. No national parliament votes on it and no national law is written to carry it. The territory it covers is wider than the Union. Union customs law expressly takes in Monaco and the two British sovereign territories on Cyprus, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, both of which sit outside the land of any member state. Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein owe no quota and no duty and are caught by the paperwork anyway. The Commission’s own sentence is that they “will nevertheless still be subject to melt and pour requirements”. Every import in 30 steel categories must now carry evidence of the country where the metal was first melted and cast. No evidence, no entry. The words are “shall lead to a rejection of the import”. Beyond the quota the duty is 50 percent, on every one of the 30. The parent regulation, in force since June, contains no such power. Across its whole text, recitals included, reject appears zero times, refuse zero, penalty zero. Sanctions appears once, in a recital about third countries getting round Union restrictive measures. The consequence appears for the first time in this morning’s implementing act. For twelve months there is a way round. Where no mill test certificate exists, customs may take eight ordinary commercial papers as standalone proof. Invoices. Delivery notes. Quality certificates. Supplier declarations. Cost accounting. Foreign customs documents. Commercial correspondence. Production descriptions. That route shuts on 30th September 2027. After it, entry rests on the mill test certificate, and the Commission is candid about what that document is. It “is neither a harmonised document nor specifically designed to demonstrate the country of ‘melt and pour’”. It is required anyway, because the consultation found it is the paper the trade already recognises. The evidence gathered this way feeds an assessment that is not due until 30th June 2028, on whether melt and pour should decide quota access at all. The power to reject arrives on 1st October 2026. The question it exists to answer is not due until 30th June 2028.