<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colleagues, We wanted to share a brief update on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yesterday, the European Parliament's Industry Committee formally endorsed the final text of the CRA following the political agreement reached in the Council in December 2023. The final vote will take place in plenary session on 11 March. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is the latest version of the text: <a href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-17000-2023-INIT/en/pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(74, 110, 224); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-17000-2023-INIT/en/pdf</a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We’ll continue monitoring this space, as the focus will be moving to the implementation phase, including discussions on secondary legislation meant to specify some key provisions of the CRA and the development of (voluntary) standards to support implementation and compliance.<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a reminder, the RIPE NCC and RIPE Community have engaged with EU policymakers on several occasions, as you can read in our previous <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/author/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/sanctions-cyber-resilience-and-other-hot-topics-our-eu-regulation-update-november-2023/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(74, 110, 224); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">updates</a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Best regards,<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romain _____ <div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"> Romain Bosc Sr. Public Policy & Governance Officer RIPE NCC E: rbosc@ripe.net T: +32 498 59 41 68</div> </div> </body></html>