EuropeaEuropean Commissioner Thierry Breton said more EU member states needed to implement the bloc’s cyber security guidelines.
The European Commission said on Thursday that banning Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE from EU 5G networks is “appropriate” and in line with EU guidelines.
The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, released a progress report on how EU states are implementing the bloc’s cyber security recommendations amid plans by most EU states to exclude “high-risk” 5G vendors. Have been “too slow” for.
He said the bloc had been able to reduce its dependence on other important sectors, such as energy, “in record time”, referring to EU efforts to reduce dependence on Russian gas and oil.
“The situation with 5G should be no different. We cannot afford to maintain critical dependencies that could become a weapon against our interests,” Breton said.n Commissioner Thierry Breton said more EU member states needed to implement the bloc’s cyber security guidelines.
The European Commission said on Thursday that banning Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE from EU 5G networks is “appropriate” and in line with EU guidelines.
The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, released a progress report on how EU states are implementing the bloc’s cyber security recommendations amid plans by most EU states to exclude “high-risk” 5G vendors. Have been “too slow” for.
He said the bloc had been able to reduce its dependence on other important sectors, such as energy, “in record time”, referring to EU efforts to reduce dependence on Russian gas and oil.
“The situation with 5G should be no different. We cannot afford to maintain critical dependencies that could become a weapon against our interests,” Breton said.
EU should ban high-risk suppliers ‘without delay’
According to an EU progress report, only 10 EU states have banned “high-risk suppliers”, while three member states are working on implementing national legislation on this.
Breton urged EU states to adopt legislation banning these high-risk telecom suppliers such as Huawei “without delay”.
“While some member states have made progress, today’s report shows that we are not yet where we need to be,” Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, said in a press statement.
“The Commission is making the necessary efforts to ensure security across its own network and funding instruments,” she said.
Assessing the risk profiles of suppliers and strengthening security requirements for mobile network operators are part of the guidelines on 5G cyber security that are due for 2020.
Breton said EU countries have agreed to the guidelines, but must now implement them.
The United States has been a vocal supporter of the national security threats Chinese telecom companies pose in 5G networks.
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at the 2020 Munich Security Conference that relying on Chinese 5G vendors could leave “our partners’ critical systems vulnerable to disruption, manipulation and espionage.”
last november, US banned the sale and imports of communications equipment from five Chinese companies, including Huawei and ZTE.
Concern about the threat posed to national security by Chinese companies is due to China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law.
This allows Xi Jinping’s government to compel Chinese companies and their subsidiaries operating “at home and abroad” to hand over data to the government if asked to do so. CNBC reported,
Huawei However, countered Lawyers and the Chinese government say the law will not compel them to do so.
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