Negotiators from the Council of the EU and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the revision of the NIS Directive, which aims to ensure a high level of cyber security throughout the EU, after several hours of discussion in a final round of interinstitutional negotiations (‘trilogues’) on Thursday 12 May. The future ‘NIS 2’ directive (see EUROPE B12903A18) should, among other things, increase the capacity to respond to cyber security incidents in the...