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EU NIS2 and UK NIS reforms: expanded scope, managed services, supervision, reporting and implementation timelines—key regulatory divergences for cross-border compliance

Published on: 10 August 2022

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The EU plans to reinforce its cybersecurity regime through a second Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) (see: LNB News 03/12/2021 49). Alongside this, the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is consulting on legislative updates intended to bolster the UK’s cyber resilience (see: LNB News 21/06/2022 41).

What are the key changes proposed by the EU for NIS2?

The current Network and Information Systems Directive, Directive (EU) 2016/1148 (NIS1), applied in the EU (including the UK) from May 2018. NIS1 focuses on boosting resilience and raising cybersecurity standards for organisations delivering essential services across sectors (for example, energy), and also oversees certain digital service providers, though to a lesser extent. Within the EU, NIS2 will supersede NIS1. The Council of the EU has released a press statement outlining the principal changes put forward by NIS2, as politically agreed between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. A near-final iteration of the text has been made available here and it is understood the final agreed version will follow once the European Parliament has voted on NIS2 in the second half of 2022. NIS2 aims to tackle the rapid, as set out above and here...

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