EU Issues List of High-Priority Critical Tech
The European Commission this week issued a list of 10 critical technology areas that it plans to focus on as part of its economic security strategy, which outlined in June plans to improve export controls and study whether it needs better investment screening guardrails (see 2306200052). Of the 10 categories, the commission singled out four technology areas -- advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence technologies, quantum technologies and biotechnologies -- that are “highly likely to present the most sensitive and immediate risks related to technology security and technology leakage.”
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The commission said member states should “conduct collective risk assessments” of those four technology areas by the end of the year. It said it won’t “prejudge the outcome of the risk assessment,” but the effort could lead to new measures to “promote, partner or protect on any of these technology areas.”
This is the full list of the 10 technology areas:
- Advanced semiconductor technologies
- AI technologies
- Quantum technologies
- Biotechnogloies
- Advanced connectivity, navigation and digital technologies
- Advanced sensing technologies
- Space and propulsion technologies
- Energy technologies
- Robotics and autonomous systems
- Advanced materials, manufacturing and recycling technologies.