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Written by Polona Car and Stefano De Luca (2nd edition, updated on 10.05.2023).
New technologies come with new risks, and the impact of cyber-attacks through digital products has increased dramatically in recent years. Increasingly, consumers have fallen victim to security flaws linked to digital products such as baby monitors, robo-vacuum cleaners, Wi-Fi routers and alarm systems. For businesses, the importance of ensuring that digital products in the supply chain are secure has become pivotal, considering three in five vendors have already lost money owing to product security gaps.
The European Commission’s proposal for a regulation, the ‘cyber-resilience act’ therefore aims to impose cybersecurity obligations on all products with digital elements whose intended and foreseeable use includes direct or indirect data connection to a device or network. The proposal introduces cybersecurity by design and by default principles and imposes a duty of care for the life cycle of products.
The Council and Parliament are currently working on defining their respective positions.
Versions
- May 2023: EU cyber-resilience act (2nd edition)
| Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements |
| Committee responsible: | Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) | COM(2022)454 15.9.2022 |
| Rapporteur: | Nicola Danti (Renew, Italy) | 2022/0272(COD) |
| Shadow rapporteurs: | Henna Virkkunen (EPP, Finland) Beatrice Covassi (S&D, Italy) Ignazio Corrao (Greens/EFA, Italy) Matteo Gazzini (ID, Italy) Evžen Tošenovský (ECR, Czechia) Marc Botenga (GUE/NGL, Belgium) | Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’) |
| Next steps expected: Vote in committee on draft report |
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