NIS Directive - WindEurope's recommendations for the adopted act on the “Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union”

This paper summarizes WindEurope's recommendations for the European Commission's modernisation proposal of the Directive (EU) 2016/1148 on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS Directive). The recommendations focus on the need:

• to further specify the type of “essential” and “important” entities of the energy and electricity sectors targeted by the suggested measures


• to recommend the wide application of international standards developed for OT and IT security of distributed renewable energy assets and their technologies