EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years

The European Commission (EC) wants a revised Cybersecurity Act to address any threats posed by IT and telecoms kit from third-country sources, potentially forcing member states to confront the thorny issue of suppliers such Huawei in their national networks.

Europe faces increasingly sophisticated hybrid attacks on every area of its infrastructure, the EC claims. The revised Cybersecurity Act looks to address this with union-level risk assessments, combined with targeted mitigation measures that will include bans on IT components from "high-risk suppliers."

The suggested timeframe for this could leave member states with as little as three years to remove non-compliant kit.

This is seen as the Commission finally cracking down on member states that have for years declined to take any kind of action against suppliers deemed to be a potential security risk, and imposing Europe-wide rules regarding which companies and products should not be trusted.

In mid-2023, former European Commissioner ...