Policy paper

Call for views on amending the NIS regulations

A call for views on amending the incident reporting framework for digital service providers within the Network & Information Systems (NIS) regulations.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Matt Warman
• Published: 26 July 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Security of network and information systems - call for views on amending the NIS regulations

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This document sets out the government’s approach to rectify an EU-Exit related deficiency in the Network and Information Systems legislation surrounding incident reporting thresholds for digital service providers.

These thresholds are enshrined in the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (NIS Regulations) and the European Commission Implementing Regulation 151/2018, which together set out the rules for the application of the NIS Regulations in regards to digital service providers.

This call for views seeks feedback on the government’s proposal to move incident reporting thresholds from legislation to ICO guidance.

You can respond to this call for views using the online survey tool.

Please respond by 23:59 on Friday 27 August 2021.

Published 26 July 2021