As well as approving the conclusions on ‘Reliable and resilient connectivity’ (see other news), the European Digital and Telecoms Ministers are due to adopt the recommendations for an ‘EU Blueprint on cybersecurity’ at the Telecoms Council in Luxembourg on Friday 6 June.
The text of the recommendations, which Agence Europe has been able to obtain and publish, sets out the details of the Union’s framework for cyber crisis management, “in the context of the EU’s overall preparedness for large-scale cyber security incidents and cyber crises”.
The ‘Action Plan’ is based on four guiding principles: “proportionality” (EU intervention only applies if the crisis goes beyond the national level); “subsidiarity” (Member States remain primarily responsible, with enhanced cooperation from the European institutions); “complementarity” (ensuring that the action plan is coordinated with existing crisis management mechanisms at EU level); “confidentiality” (exchanges of information must comply with European data protection and security rules).
Overall, the key word of the ‘Plan’ seems to be cooperation and its reinforcement: between Member States, with the European institutions and crisis management systems, between the competent public services and military branches, between the various specialised agencies responsible for cybersecurity within the Union, etc.
Many of the guidelines detailed in this ‘Plan’ are based on increased and deeper cooperation with the European network of liaison organisations in the event of a cyber crisis, known as ‘EU-CyCLONe’.
The document also proposes creating “an efficient annual rolling programme of cyber exercises to prepare for cyber crises and to enhance organisational efficiency”.
Finally, to support the “effective” application of the plan, “the Council may develop, if needed, a set of implementing guidelines”, the document states. As for the ‘Plan’ itself, it will have to be “reviewed by the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, at least every four years”.
See the document: https://aeur.eu/f/h69 (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)