“eco endorses in principle the plans of the German Minister for the Interior to develop Germany into a leading location for IT Security. This can bring Germany a locational and competitive advantage in the European and international market for innovative security solutions and applications. However, we reject an IT Security law as a unilateral national action – as has now come into existence in the form of the draft bill. In particular with reference to the operators of critical infrastructure named in the draft, which are active either throughout Europe or worldwide, unilateral national action is not constructive. The German Federal Government would be better to work towards a Europe-wide regulation in the context of the planned NIS Directive, in order to spare the affected companies unnecessarily high costs.”