RegisteryourcarbonfootprintwithMITECOwithoutrebuildingyourdata

It is Spain's official register of carbon footprint, offsetting and CO2 absorption projects, run by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition. It is organised into three sections: carbon footprint and reduction commitments, carbon offsetting, and CO2 absorption projects. Organisations that register can display one of three seals depending on how far they go: Calculo for measuring, Reduzco for measuring and reducing, and Compenso for offsetting.

RD 214/2025 was published on 8 April 2025 and came into force on 12 June 2025, replacing RD 163/2014. The previous framework was largely voluntary with light requirements, which produced inconsistent data quality and symbolic reduction commitments. The new decree sets minimum technical requirements to register, makes a real reduction plan part of the process, and defines rules for offsetting. In practice, carbon data has to be measurable, verifiable and usable for decisions.

Registration is mandatory for companies required to file non-financial information under Spanish Law 11/2018, and for state-level public bodies and entities that use the General Public Accounting Plan. SMEs are not automatically obliged, but many find the requirement arrives anyway through public subsidy or programme applications, which frequently ask for a calculated carbon footprint. Any organisation can also register voluntarily to align with its group or meet client expectations.

Scope 1 and Scope 2 are the mandatory minimum: direct emissions from your operations and indirect emissions from purchased energy. Scope 3 is not mandatory under the decree, but it is strongly recommended, and for many companies it is where most of the impact sits. Public tenders, banks, investors and clients increasingly ask for it, so including it tends to be a commercial decision as much as a regulatory one.

Not always. Verification by an accredited third party is required if you are applying for public funding or subsidies tied to carbon reporting, if you are a large company (more than 250 employees, or turnover above 50 million euros, or a balance sheet above 43 million euros), if you include Scope 3 emissions that account for more than 40 percent of your total footprint or use them in public commitments or offsetting, or if your sector's own rules require it. The verifier must be accredited under UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17029 and UNE-EN ISO 14065, or equivalent.

A real one: concrete actions with measurable outcomes, not a statement of intent. This is what separates the Calculo seal from Reduzco. Leia analyses your emissions by hotspot, audits the underlying data, and helps you build and prioritise targets and actions from what you actually measure, so the plan is grounded in your inventory rather than written alongside it.

No. Offsets recognised by the registry have to come from officially approved absorption projects, through MITECO or an equivalent mechanism, and those projects must meet strict criteria: permanence, additionality, and no leakage, meaning they cannot simply move emissions somewhere else. This is the basis of the Compenso seal.

No, and that distinction matters. Dcycle is not an auditor or a consultancy: it is the platform that collects your environmental data, calculates the inventory with recognised methodologies and official MITECO factors, builds the reduction plan, and leaves every figure traceable to its source. The external verification is done by an accredited certifier and the submission is made by your company. What Dcycle removes is the part that usually takes the longest: assembling and defending the data.