Council’s Trio presidency: draft programme

A (leaked) draft programme of the upcoming Council’s Trio presidency was recently unveiled. The Trio presidency is composed of the three Member States set to take the presidency of the Council in the next year and a half. The upcoming Trio is Germany (July-December 2020), Portugal (January-June 2021) and Slovenia (July-December 2021). 

Please find below the link to the draft programme and a summary of the main points.

Draft programme: trio presidency

 

Cybersecurity

The Trio will seek to reinforce the resilience of societies, more particularly they will work on the act on operational and cyber resilience of financial services, and the review of the NIS Directive.

In addition, “[t]he Trio will step up efforts at European level for a mandatory minimum level of IT security for devices that are connected to the internet.”

Artificial Intelligence and data

The Trio will follow up on the Commission white paper on Artificial Intelligence, and the Commission’s data strategy, including on data infrastructure, data and privacy protection, responsible use of data, data spaces, data accessibility, data sharing, and data security.

Strategic value chains

In the Trio’s draft programme, the EU post-COVID recovery requires an ambitious industrial strategy, including on key technologies and technological autonomy.

The Trio will further work on the identification of strategic value chains and industrial eco-systems. Industrial alliances and Important Projects of Common European Interest will be important for this purpose.

Over-dependency on third countries

The EU must produce critical goods in Europe to reduce over-dependency on third countries, especially in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. This is line with the key recommendations of the recovery roadmap.

Space

The Trio aims to increase the use of space technologies and applications to support public policies. They will pursue a European position on key principles for the global space economy and the development of New Space, including market driven approaches and opening space to new actors.

Next steps:

16 June: presidency programme to the adopted by EU ministers

 

For any questions on this issue, do not hesitate to contact Camille Dornier: camille.dornier@eurosmart.com

 

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