11
Mar
2024
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Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 (debate)
Mr President, Commissioner Breton, ladies and gentlemen, Europe is a growing target of cyber-attacks which, especially in the light of the geopolitical situation, represent a danger of hybrid warfare aimed at undermining the security of our strategic infrastructure. Cybersecurity has become a European issue that should rightly be read from the perspective of an integrated digital market, as has been done in this regulation. Our cyber security needs a synergistic partnership, involving all intelligence agencies, NATO and international partners. Cybersecurity is also a primary sector for the common European defence, for our Member States, for our society and for our industries, but not only! Also for the economic sector, where it is essential to guarantee the certainty of the common standards for all products, as well as those that have been indicated previously - from software, to open source and apps - which must be validated by specific procedures for verifying their conformity. The establishment of the European e-Skills Academy is also good, because Europe needs to rapidly increase its skills and training capacity in order to keep up with the new challenges. I would like to thank Mr Danti, with whom we have fought many battles in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the EPP Group and all our colleagues, because this legislative innovation has taken place through teamwork for the benefit of citizens and consumers.