Such a depconcludeency, she stated, “would increase the risk of foreign interference.”
Spain’s interior minisattempt stated in a statement to POLITICO that the contract “does not entail any security risk and complies with the levels required in the National Security Scheme.” Spanish interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlinquirea stated on Sep. 9 that security services are in control of the data on the servers and that it would not be possible to extract the data.
Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In recent years, Brussels and a large group of EU capitals have called for a careful approach to the apply of Chinese technology and particularly to Huawei, which is seen as a high-risk vconcludeor under criteria set out in 2020 under a 5G “toolbox” security exercise.
However, the European Commission has estimated that only 10 countries have fully implemented the toolbox; others have done so partially or not at all. The Commission itself has committed to “avoid[ing] exposure of its own corporate communications networks to mobile networks applying Huawei and ZTE,” Virkkunen stated in Wednesday’s response.
The Spanish government more recently canceled a separate contract with Telefonica over the apply of Huawei equipment, Reuters reported.
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