It has been a great honour and a pleasure for Sandra to participate at the Bocconi School of Law’s hybrid conference “Quo Vadis, EU (Law)?” on 12 November 2021. The conference saw distinguished legal scholars such as Bruno de Witte (Maastricht University) and Paul Nemitz (Principal Adviser on Justice Policy, EU Commission) discussing how the … Continued
On 28 May 2021, the German IT Security Act 2.0 entered into force and introduces a number of changes to the existing regulation of critical infrastructures (corresponding to essential services under the NIS Directive) already covered by the BSI Act (Gesetz über das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI-Gesetz)). These changes include: expansion of … Continued
Sandra Schmitz is an invited speaker at the conference “Quo vadis, EU (Law)?” held on 11-12 November 2021 at Bocconi University, Milan. Within the session on Digital Europe, she will present on “Cybersecurity, the AI Act and State of the Art”.
One year ago, the Council of the European Union published the Council Resolution on Encryption, in which the necessity for security through encryption and for security despite encryption is emphasized. The resolution is based on the assumption that access to encrypted content is becoming increasingly important for competent authorities in the area of security and … Continued
The NIS Directive required Member States to designate competent authorities in the field of network and information security for inter alia monitoring compliance. Further central contact points as liaison offices for supranational cooperation and computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs) had to be designated. The CSIRTs collaborate in the CSIRTs Network “to contribute to developing … Continued
We are currently updating our websites with translations of the national transpositions of selected Member States. The selection was based on a variety of factors (including geographical spread, centralised or decentralised supervisory regime) in order to represent a comprehensive overview of the diverging measures. The database of translations is an important source for the NIS … Continued