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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:7.5pt 0cm 5.25pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>This may be something EU chapters want to co-ordinate a campaign for:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Commission asks Member States to transpose into national laws the EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 5.25pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#555555'>The Commission decided today to send a letter of formal notice to 17 Member States to fully transpose into national laws the first piece of EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity. This decision affects the following Member States: Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>The objective of the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-18-3651_en.htm">NIS Directive</a>; <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.194.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:194:TOC">Directive 2016/1148/EU</a>) is to achieve evenly high level of security of network and information systems across the EU through the development of national cybersecurity capabilities, increasing EU-level cooperation and incident reporting obligations for operators of essential services and digital service providers. Member States had to transpose <strong>the NIS Directive</strong> into national laws by <strong>9 May 2018</strong> as it entered into force in August 2016. So far <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/state-play-transposition-nis-directive">11 Member States</a> have notified the European Commission of the full transposition of the Directive and are in the process of a transposition check with a view to confirm the full transposition. The other Member States have two months to respond to the formal notice sent by the Commission; otherwise, the Commission may decide to send a reasoned opinion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>FROM:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/commission-asks-member-states-transpose-national-laws-eu-wide-legislation-cybersecurity">https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/commission-asks-member-states-transpose-national-laws-eu-wide-legislation-cybersecurity</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Brandt Dainow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:brandt.dainow@gmail.com">brandt.dainow@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>ISOC Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>