Recital 50b

The development and operation of national entry points may involve important costs for Member States, particularly where national reporting systems need to be built upon existing ones to adapted. It is important that, where applicable and foreseen in the relevant instruments, such activities are financially supported through relevant Union funding instruments, such as the Digital Europe Programme, the European Structural and Investment Funds and other relevant Union funding programmes.

The development and operation of national entry points may involve important costs for Member States, particularly where national reporting systems need to be built or existing ones need to be adapted. Further costs might be related to ensuring their cross-border interoperability. It is therefore important that, where applicable and foreseen in the relevant instruments, such activities are financially supported through relevant Union funding instruments, such as the Digital Europe Programme, the European Structural and Investment Funds and other relevant Union funding programmes.

The development and operation of national entry points may involve important costs for Member States, particularly where national reporting systems need to be built or existing ones need to be adapted. Further costs might be related to ensuring their cross-border interoperability. It is therefore important that, where applicable and foreseen in the relevant instruments, such activities are financially supported through relevant Union funding instruments, such as the Digital Europe Programme, the European Structural and Investment Funds and other relevant Union funding programmes.

The national entry point could, depending on Member States’ organisational arrangement and national structure, allow for tasks and functionalities supporting the reporting of relevant incidents, such as enabling the submission of notifications, receiving and processing notifications submitted by entities, ensuring or facilitating access to such notifications for the competent authorities under the relevant Union act, transmitting or making available relevant information to other national authorities, where foreseen under Union or national law, supporting coordination among competent authorities in relation to reported incidents or information, or providing guidance or assistance to entities regarding notification procedures.