Regulation (EU) 2024/2847
The Cyber Resilience Act, for people who have to comply with it
Not a summary of the whole Regulation. The reporting duty in Article 14 has applied since 11 September 2026 and the rest applies from 11 December 2027; these pages cover the part already in effect: what has to be reported, by when, to whom, and how.Art. 71(2)
Every claim cites the article it comes from, and every citation opens the text on EUR-Lex. Each page carries the date it was last read against the Regulation.
- Article 14
What Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act requires: who reports, when the 24-hour, 72-hour and final clocks start, and which authority receives each filing.
- Filing on the platform
Every field the ENISA platform asks for at each of the three stages, who may submit, what its validation does not gate, and what its own counter gets wrong.
- Deadlines
Every date that matters in the Cyber Resilience Act, from entry into force to the reporting duty on 11 September 2026 and full obligations on 11 December 2027.
- Where to report
The coordinating CSIRT in all 27 member states, the Article 14(7) rule for working out which one is yours, and why choosing wrong can void a notification.
- Fines
Up to €15 million or 2.5% of turnover, whichever is higher, for the reporting duty. What the other two bands cover, and where small companies stand.
- Statistics
Every number in the Cyber Resilience Act, one quotable line each with its source: deadlines, fines, dates, product classes and KEV since 11 September.
- Non-EU manufacturers
If your company is outside the EU but you sell into it, the Cyber Resilience Act applies. Here is how to work out which national authority receives your report.
- Readiness
The Article 13 duties as 28 questions, which ones are blocking, the five documents a manufacturer needs and the Annex II user information per product.
- Monthly digest
One email a month: how many vulnerabilities the CISA exploited catalogue added, and how many sit in components that appear in real inventories. Counts only.
- Product classes
Every important and critical product category in the Cyber Resilience Act, what each class means for conformity assessment, and why none changes a deadline.
- Document outlines
The vulnerability handling process, disclosure policy, SBOM policy, Annex VII documentation and Annex V declaration, outlined with the article for each.
- SBOM requirements
The Regulation asks for a machine-readable bill of materials covering at least the top-level dependencies. That is a smaller duty than most vendors assume.
- Glossary
The CRA vocabulary, defined once with the article each term rests on: the filings, the clocks, the classes, and the manufacturer duties around them.
- CRA and NIS2
Both run a 24-hour and a 72-hour clock, and they bind different parties for different reasons. Reporting under one does not discharge the duty under the other.
Two things you can run rather than read
- Scope check
Five questions, no sign-up. A verdict with the article it rests on, the authority you would report to, and the dates that apply.
- KEV check
Upload a CycloneDX or SPDX SBOM and see which components are on the CISA exploited list, with its quality score and any cryptography. Nothing is stored.
- SBOM quality check
Upload a CycloneDX or SPDX SBOM and see which fields BSI TR-03183-2 asks for are missing, component by component. Free, no sign-up, nothing stored.
- Generating an SBOM
Produce a CycloneDX or SPDX bill of materials for a container image, a source tree or a binary in a minute with syft, and make it part of every release.
This produces evidence, timelines and drafts. It is not legal advice, and you remain the party responsible for reporting.