With the Cloud & AI Development Act (CADA), the European Commission aims to expand Europe’s cloud and AI capacity and create a single framework for cloud sovereignty in the public sector.
Bitkom welcomes the proposal as an important step for Europe’s digital competitiveness and technological sovereignty. What matters now is implementation: the four assurance levels should be risk-based and reflect the sensitivity of each use case, and the criteria must be objective, transparent and verifiable. At the same time, openness to trusted partners is needed without diluting the framework. Following CADA’s three pillars, Bitkom’s position paper sets out where the proposal should be refined.