- Background of the proposed changes
The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted digitalization and digital
interaction at all levels of European society. Along with increased
interconnectivity, however, came greater vulnerabilities and
threats from a cybersecurity perspective.
In order to deliver seamless public digital services, the
European Union ("EU") focuses on
increasing its cybersecurity capabilities, by implementing a series
of measures announced in the EU's Cybersecurity Strategy for
the Digital Decade, communicated on December 16, 2020.
According to the Strategy, the European Commission
("Commission") has been tasked with
coordinating and implementing the setting-up of a new Joint Cyber
Unit. The Joint Cyber Unit should become the infrastructure for
increased cooperation between Member States and all the relevant EU
cybersecurity institutions, bodies, and agencies, and for the full
development of existing networks and communities with respect to
information
