Given that cybersecurity covers a wide range of areas and falls within the remit of many State bodies, the Government decided on 13 December 2017 to set up an interministerial committee bringing together the players concerned, to be responsible for ensuring national coordination on cybersecurity matters.

The committee’s members represent the main State bodies active in cybersecurity at the national level. Its chair and secretary is the High Commissioner for National Protection.

The committee’s missions are:

• to ensure the consistency of actions and initiatives undertaken in the areas of cyber-prevention and cybersecurity;
• to coordinate the implementation of the initiatives launched and the measures decided on at the European and international level in the areas of cyber-prevention and cybersecurity;
• to monitor the implementation at the national level of policies decided on at the European and international level;
• to advise the Government in the areas of cyber-prevention and cybersecurity by identifying topics and priorities to be considered in this area, and the players responsible for implementing them;
• to discuss the positions on cyber-prevention and cybersecurity to be adopted by national representatives at European and international bodies.