A controversial cybersecurity bill that would expand the powers of the DSR and introduce maximum fines of 200,000 lei to 10% of turnover for failure to report cyber incidents was passed on Monday with all amendments rejected. The Chamber of Deputies can reach on Wednesday during the final vote in the Senate.

• The draft law submitted to the Chamber of Deputies on December 15 was adopted today by the Chamber of Deputies 180 votes “for”, 39 “against”, 47 “abstentions”.

Deputy Cătălin Teniță, a member of REPER, one of the 2 deputies who submitted amendments to this draft law, accuses that everything happened quickly before this: the debate at the joint meeting of the reporting committees (Commission on Defense, Public Order and National Security and Commission on Information communication technologies) lasted less than an hour, and the introduced amendments were not discussed.

• “After discussion, the draft law was also today, soon, sent to the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies for a vote, so that by Wednesday, December 21, that is, the day after tomorrow, it will also be voted on at the plenary session of the Senate, the decision-making chamber, without a minimum dialogue regarding the economic impact on private players, especially small and medium-sized companies and companies in the field of ICT,” he says.

The deputy warns that “as it stands, the draft law provides draconian obligations for the private sector to report all security incidents by all companies, regardless of the size or severity of said incidents, even minor ones that do not affect cyber security. Romania, in an extremely short period of time (48 hours)”.

Tenice also claims that all of the amendments were voted down en masse, without debate, and the committee chairman suggested leaving the discussion of the amendments to the discretion of the Senate committees.

In addition, amendments were also made in PSD MP Viorel Salan.

• SEE THE AMENDMENTS REJECTED IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES HERE

HotNews.ro reported earlier that the Government approved on Thursday, December 8, this draft law, which introduces very high fines for not reporting security incidents and even increases the maximum fines that can be imposed in such cases.

• VIEW THE DRAFT LAW AND THE FUND HERE

A new cyber security and defense bill on the government’s agenda on Thursday is more dangerous than the previous one, the Association for Technology and the Internet (ApTI) claimed on December 8, warning that the range of those who have to fulfill the security obligations has expanded even moreagain The powers of the Research Institute have been expanded and to “campaigns of propaganda or disinformation.”

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