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The European cyber-surveillance guidelines have now been published.
On 16 October 2024, the European Commission published guidelines on the export of cyber-surveillance items, aiming to raise awareness of the risks associated with misuse of cyber-surveillance technologies and provide exporters with practical tools to evaluate human rights.
The new guidelines will help exporters assess whether exports of specific cyber-surveillance items could pose a risk for internal repression or serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the importing country.
In cases where such a risk is identified, the exporter is required to send an export notification to the national competent authority.
The guidelines also clarify what types of items fall under the notion of cyber-surveillance and how EU exporters should interpret key concepts such as “internal repression” as well as “serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law”.