Telecom Services Security Incidents 2019 Annual Analysis Report

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Publication date:July 23, 2020

Security incident reporting has been part of the EU’s telecom regulatory framework since the 2009 reform of the telecom package, Article 13a of the Framework directive (2009/140/EC) came into force in 2011. The incident reporting in Article 13a focuses on security incidents with significant impact on the operation of services, i.e. outages of the electronic communication networks and/or services. The 2019 annual summary reporting contains reports about 153 incidents submitted by national authorities from 28 EU Member States and EFTA countries.