EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847): cited answers and gap reviews
The Cyber Resilience Act sets cybersecurity and vulnerability-handling requirements for products with digital elements sold in the EU. Compliance Colleague covers product classification, conformity assessment, SBOMs and reporting duties for manufacturers, importers and distributors.
What it covers
- Product classification: default, Class I and Class II
- Annex I essential requirements and conformity assessment routes
- SBOMs, support periods and CE marking
- Vulnerability and incident reporting to ENISA and CSIRTs
- Manufacturer, importer and distributor duties
Questions you can ask
- “Is our product Class I or Class II?”
- “What must we report to ENISA, and how fast?”
- “How long does our support period have to be?”
Every answer cites the EU Cyber Resilience Act requirement, article or control it rests on, so you can check it in seconds.
What you can upload for review
- A vulnerability handling policy checked against Annex I
- An SBOM process description checked for gaps
- A product architecture diagram checked for security-relevant interfaces
Files: PDF, Word, Excel or CSV, Visio (.vsdx), draw.io, or an image such as a screenshot. Choose a full review, a prioritized fix list (each gap with its fix and the evidence an assessor will expect) or a short summary, and download the result as Word or PDF.
Crosswalk EU Cyber Resilience Act to other standards
With EU Cyber Resilience Act in your plan you can compare it against any standard in the library and see where they align and exactly where they don’t. Common pairings:
Upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act dates
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 Art. 71(2)
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What it’s built from
Compliance Colleague carries the official text and checks its answers against it: Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 (Cyber Resilience Act) (Publications Office of the European Union (EUR-Lex)).
Re-checked every month for new versions, deadlines and penalty changes. Full list on the sources page.
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Research aid, not legal or audit advice, and not an audit opinion or certification. Verify findings against the official text before relying on them.