Putting EU Digital Sovereignty and Single Market to the test:

A Voluntary EUCS High+ is crucial for Competitiveness, Sovereignty and Digital Leadership

Cloud is the backbone of the digital economy and a key driver to boost European organizations’ digital transformation and, consequently, their competitiveness. To achieve this and encompass new digital evolutions and use cases, in particular AI, European users must have the assurance that these evolutions are not happening without a suitable level of protection of data, including the most sensitive ones. This must be done at EU level to avoid Single Market fragmentation.

With the new Commission in place and its clear commitment to digital sovereignty, discussions on the European Cloud Services Cybersecurity Certification Scheme (EUCS) should more than ever proceed with the inclusion of High+ criteria.

This would be fully consistent with the Draghi report, which has for instance recommended the adoption of a single EU wide policy for the procurement of cloud services by public administrations, including data residency requirements and requiring at a minimum EU sovereign control of key elements for security and encryption. This recommendation has also been reflected in the Mission Letter to the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy.

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