The conclusions on cybersecurity, which the EU General Affairs Council plans to adopt on 23 March, support the idea of a new legislative initiative on cybersecurity of connected objects. This is what is revealed in a draft text discussed on Tuesday 2 February by the horizontal working party in charge of cybersecurity issues.
The document “reiterates the need to explore the scope of a possible horizontal Union legal act, including for market access, which the Commission may be invited to propose in order to address all relevant aspects of cybersecurity of connected objects and its links with the cybersecurity certification framework under the Cybersecurity Act (CSA), as well as any other product specific instruments, in order to ensure adequate synergies, while avoiding inconsistencies or duplication”.
The draft conclusions also address the next steps to ensure the security of 5G networks. It expresses its support for a comprehensive and long-term approach covering the entire value chain and ecosystem. It also supports encryption, while recalling, as always, the need to allow judicial and supervisory authorities to exercise their powers online and offline.
The Member States further suggest that these conclusions should be the subject of an EU Council action plan to follow up on them.
See the conclusions: http://bit.ly/3tsMyI7 (Original version in French by Sophie Petitjean)