The Hague-led coalition against the European Commission’s push to include sovereignty requirements in the European Cloud Services (EUCS) scheme has grown to 12 EU countries, including Germany, that jointly presented negative commentary to the latest draft.
The ministers of the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Ireland, Romania, Czechia, Finland, and Estonia took the floor at the Telecom Council on Tuesday (5 December) to criticise the Commission’s attempt to include sovereignty requirements in the scheme.
“We feel there’s a need to draw the Council’s attention to this scheme today,” said Dutch state secretary Alexandra van Huffelen, opening the dances.
“We see the risk that the sovereignty requirements included in the scheme will create unfair competition between the EU member states and might also result in a market access barrier, which could negatively impact our strategic partnerships with countries like the US and Japan,” she said.
During the ministerial discussion, Ivan Bartoš, the Czech deputy PM for digitalisation, hinted that an alternative compromise would be to use data adequacy decisions under the General Data Protection Regulation to identify trusted third countries.
The chance came with the discussion on a targeted revision of the Cybersecurity Act, the legal basis for the cloud scheme, which the Commission proposed as part of the Cyber Solidarity Act, offering the flank to those unhappy with how the EU executive has been managing EUCS.
In the European Parliament, MEPs voted in favour of turning the adoption of certification schemes from an implementing to a delegate act, which would give them the power to veto the final draft.
“Commission is still in denial of its own role in this process: they made a technical scheme political, on purpose, and this has created backlash both in Council and in P ..
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