Belgium was the first EU country to fully implement the NIS2 legislation. Today, 15 months later, experts from the Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) draw a first assessment: “We are on schedule.” 📊

What does this mean for companies in the cold chain?

✅ 4,000 essential and important entities registered ✅ CyFun framework: cybersecurity tailored to SMEs ✅ Incident reporting mandatory within 24 hours ⏰ April 2026: start conformity audits for essential entities

Good news: the Belgian approach focuses on support, not sanctions. The CCB helps organizations become stronger step by step in terms of cyber resilience.

As a BE-Cold member you may fall under essential or important entities (energy management, food chain, critical infrastructure). Time to prepare is running out - but help is available through the Safeonweb@work portal and www.cyberplan.be .