Cybersecurity and EU Law: Adopting the Network and Information Security Directive (Routledge Research in EU Law)

Cybersecurity is set to be one of the dominant themes in EU governance in the coming years, and EU law has begun to adapt to the challenges presented by security with the adoption of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive.This book explores the binding effects of the legal instruments and analyzes the impact of the constraining factors originating from NIS-related domestic policies across Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Poland upon the transposition of the NIS Directive. Combining insights from law and political science, the book offers a comparative empirical analysis of national policies and regulations regarding network and information security, as well as the national legal framework deriving from the NIS Directive’s transposition.The book argues that the more the Directives offer a regulatory leeway to EU Member States for the transposition of their content, the more the preservation of national interests by EU Member States affects the uniform appl