Article 9, Establishment of the Cyber Emergency Mechanism
1. A Cyber Emergency Mechanism is established to improve the Union’s resilience to major cybersecurity threats and prepare for and mitigate, in a spirit of solidarity, the short-term impact of significant and large-scale cybersecurity incidents (the ‘Mechanism’).
2. Actions implementing the Cyber Emergency Mechanism shall be supported by funding from DEP and implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/694 and in particular Specific Objective 3 thereof.
Note: This is the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council laying down measures to strengthen solidarity and capacities in the Union to detect, prepare for and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents of 18.4.2023 (proposal for the EU Cyber Solidarity Act). This is NOT the final text of the EU Cyber Solidarity Act.