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ECI Forum User | 21 May 2026

Hello Nikitas,

I am definitely not experienced in this topic or even ECIs as a whole but I have some thoughts if you think they'll help out.

1. While it is a great topic, it is rather terminology heavy. It would be difficult to make it not terminology heavy because that's really the topic here. So, I don't know how to help. The EC would be OK with this but getting 1 million signatures might be too difficult if people don't understand the topic.

2. I think there was a similar proposal with the European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services (EUCS). I am not sure if it is successful or even an active proposal but a mention of it would be good, so that the EC doesn't reply that at least some of your objectives are already covered by the EUCS. So, basically you won't be shut off. But I am not a tech guy, so maybe the proposals are quite different and I didn't realize it in a glance.

Still, think that this is a good initiative that can work but maybe some small tweaks and some more outside help might be needed.

Best wishes and good luck

Nikitas Bastas | 22 May 2026

Yes, you are correct! It pretty much overlaps not only with EUCS proposal, but also with existing laws and regulations, ongoing debates, EU future plans towards digital self-dependency etc.

Especially under the certain geopolitical circumstances, it was finally realized that EU self-dependency, not only on the digital part, but in a broader sense, is no more a "nice to have" but an absolute necessity.

A reason that may make this proposal distinguishable and valuable as a modest contribution/idea is that it asks for "a voluntary, service-scoped, risk-based, independently audited certification profile for sovereign-control resilience across critical digital infrastructure services." but not limited on Cloud services (EUCS).

A second reason might be that this proposal is requested by European citizens - not EU instruments, policymakers, micro-politically biased individuals. From this perspective, it can send a clear message to the EU Commission, of the worry, the skepticism, that many EU citizens already have towards the high digital dependency and data exposure on non-EU Digital Goods.

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