Recital 5

(5) As outlined in the Commission’s communication of 5 May 2021 entitled ‘Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery’, it is necessary for the Union to identify systems of critical technologies and strategic sectors, to address strategic weaknesses and high-risk dependencies which could lead to supply shortages or cybersecurity risks, and to foster the digital transformation. This underlines the importance of Member States’ joining forces and supporting industry’s efforts to address those dependencies and to develop strategic capacity needs. This also responds to the Commission’s analysis set out in its communication of 8 September 2021 entitled ‘2021 Strategic Foresight Report – The EU’s capacity and freedom to act’. In the framework of the Recovery and Resilience Facility established by Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) and the preparation of national recovery and resilience plans, the Commission encouraged Member States to coordinate their efforts with a view, inter alia, to establishing multi-country projects in the digital area. That experience highlighted the need for the Commission to support coordination efforts by Member States, and for the Union to have implementation mechanisms that facilitate joint investments, in order to establish multi-country projects. In conjunction with other initiatives of the Commission, such as the EU Observatory for Critical Technologies, referred to in the Commission’s communication of 22 February 2021 entitled ‘Action Plan on synergies between civil, defence and space industries’, a governance structure implementing the Digital Compass should be established, should help to identify the Union’s current and possible future digital strategic dependencies and should contribute to strengthening the Union’s digital sovereignty in an open manner.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.