NIS2: new guidance for companies

On April 14, 2025, the National Cybersecurity Agency (“NCA”) published measure no. 164179 (“Measure”) to further implement the decree 138 of 2024 (“NIS2 Decree”).

  • What’s new?

With this Measure, the NCA has identified:

  • Security measures that companies must guarantee in case they are identified as an important subject (annex 1) or an essential subject (annex 2);
  • Types of significant incidents that companies must report, depending on whether they are classified as an important (annex 3) or essential subject (annex 4).
  • Since when?

The Measure will enter into force on 30 April 2025. However, companies will have:

  • 18 months from the communication of their inclusion on the NIS subject list to comply with these new security measures;
  • 9 months from the communication of inclusion on the NIS subject list to activate mechanisms to ensure the notification of incidents identified as significant.
  • As a company, what do you have to do now?
  • Wait for the NCA’s communication to verify if your company has been included in the NIS list;
  • In case of a positive answer, your company will be required to provide further information (such as member states where the service is carried out; name and contact details of a substitute for the point of contact) by May 31, 2025;
  • Implement, within 9 months from the communication of the inclusion on the NIS subject list, mechanisms for the notification of incidents expressly identified by NCA as “significant incidents”;
  • Implement, within 18 months from the communication of the inclusion on the NIS subject list, the security measures expressly identified by the NCA.

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About Jessica Riva

Jessica collaborates with the firm as a junior associate dealing mainly with issues related to companies operating in the health and life sciences sectors. She graduated cum laude in 2022 from the University of Trento with a dissertation entitled “Civil liability related to the organizational deficit of the health care system in dealing with the pandemic emergency: a comparison between Italy and Germany”, besides carring out a period of research in collaboration with the chair of health law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She has worked in relevant law firms of the Italian scenario. Jessica speaks Italian, English, and German.

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