As in past years, Bitkom strongly endorses the EU in its efforts to substantially and sustainably strengthen the resilience of networks and systems against cybersecurity risks across Europe whilst deepening the harmonization of the European Digital Single Market and avoiding fragmentation at the same time. Our position is guided by the urgent need to create a more coherent and harmonized common level playing field for operators of essential services (OES) as well as for digital service providers (DSP) across the Union. We are convinced that common and harmonized cybersecurity rules at EU level are the most effective way to achieve a higher level of cyber resilience.