From: Out-Law.com
FOCUS: The UK government does not want online services such as shopping or search websites to be included in cyber security rules designed for essential services such as electricity or banking networks, a government
official has said.
The UK is facing opposition from other EU countries, though, which want EU cyber security rules to apply to operators of ‘digital service platforms’ such as Amazon as well as to operators of critical banking, energy, health and transport infrastructure.
The disagreement concerns the precise scope of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive. EU countries are negotiating over the final wording of the rules, which are scheduled to be agreed by June and to come into force in 2018.
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