Cybersecurity Assurance and Trade Data Trust Frameworks: Linking EUCC and EUTIR

The document titled Cybersecurity Assurance and Trade Data Trust Frameworks: Linking EUCC and EUTIR presents a strategic proposal to strengthen the EU’s digital trade and cybersecurity infrastructure by integrating two key frameworks: the European Common Criteria-based cybersecurity certification scheme (EUCC) and the proposed European Trade Indexes Registry (EUTIR). It emphasizes the need for a unified, secure, and interoperable digital ecosystem that ensures trust in both ICT products and cross-border trade data. By aligning cybersecurity certification with verifiable trade data registries, the document advocates for enhanced transparency, continuity of assurance, and global interoperability’supporting the EU’s goals for digital sovereignty, sustainable trade, and competitiveness. The proposal includes concrete legislative amendments and outlines how EUTIR can serve as a trust anchor for digital trade, leveraging technologies like blockchain (via EBSI) and global identifiers (LEI/vLEI, EORI) to enable secure, efficient, and fraud-resistant data exchange across customs, logistics, finance, and environmental compliance systems.