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EU Cybersecurity Legislation Tracker: NIS 2, DORA, Cyber Resilience Act, Cybersecurity Act, CER Directive and Cyber Solidarity Act—Key Dates, Amendments and Implementation

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Practice notes

This Practice Note charts the principal stages of EU legislative action on cyber security, mapping the developments across the initiatives set out below.

Key EU cyber security initiatives include:

Revised EU Cybersecurity Act (proposal issued on 20 January 2026)
EU Cybersecurity Act (adopted, with amendments adopted in January 2025)
Digital Operational Resilience Act or DORA (adopted, applying from 17 January 2025)
NIS 2 Directive (adopted, in force from 18 October 2024; amendments proposed on 20 January 2026)
EU Critical Entities Resilience Directive or CER (adopted, in force from 18 October 2024)
EU Cyber Security Regulation (adopted, in force from 7 January 2024)
EU Cyber Resilience Act (adopted, applies from 11 December 2027)
EU Cyber Solidarity Act (adopted, in force from 4 February 2025)

All of these measures are monitored in this note, except DORA, whose historical legislative progress is captured in Practice Note: Operational resilience—timeline [Archived].

Be aware that several of these instruments will be affected by the proposal for a Digital Omnibus on the digital acquis, published on 19 November 2025. That proposal would establish a single-entry system for cybersecurity reporting, to be inserted as a new Article 23a in NIS 2...

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