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Is my road transport company covered by the Cyberbeveiligingswet?

As a rule not. For road transport, Annex 1 of the Cbw names only road authorities and operators of intelligent transport systems, not carriers of goods or persons. You are covered if you are medium-sized or larger and also carry out an activity from Annex 1 or 2, for example as a postal or courier service.

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What Annex 1 names under “Road”

The transport sector in Annex 1 has the road subsector with two kinds of entities: road authorities responsible for traffic management, and operators of intelligent transport systems [1]. The Cyberbeveiligingsregeling IenW calls those operators ITS service providers, alongside providers of mobility data [4]. A road carrier that transports goods or persons is not listed there. On-board computers or telematics in your own fleet do not as a rule make you an ITS service provider.

When you are covered after all

If you are medium-sized or larger and also carry out one of these activities:

  • you provide at least one step in the postal delivery chain (collecting, sorting, transporting or delivering postal items, such as addressed parcels): then you fall under Annex 2 as a postal or courier service; transport separate from those steps does not count [2]
  • you supply ITS services or mobility data to others [1] [4]
  • you are yourself a wholesaler of food, or you manufacture or distribute chemical substances or mixtures [5]; only transport or storage for another party is as a rule not covered there
  • you supply managed IT or security services to other companies [6]

If you fall into one of those categories but are smaller, the Minister can designate you as an essential entity [3]. Without an activity from Annex 1 or 2 that is not possible. See the question about essential and important entities for size.

Even if you are not covered

Customers that are themselves covered by the Cbw must secure their supply chain. They can therefore impose security requirements on you by contract. See the question about customers who demand NIS2.

Sources

  1. [1] Cbw, Annex 1 (Dutch Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw); Dutch law, unofficial translation). Annex 1, transport sector, road subsector: road authorities and operators of intelligent transport systems. Original Dutch text:
    Weg – Wegenautoriteiten als bedoeld in artikel 2, onderdeel 12, van gedelegeerde Verordening (EU) 2015/962 die verantwoordelijk zijn voor het verkeersbeheer […] – Exploitanten van intelligente vervoerssystemen
    Source, retrieved on 2 October 2026.
  2. [2] Cbw, Annex 2 (Dutch Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw); Dutch law, unofficial translation). Annex 2 names providers of postal services, including courier services, insofar as they provide a step in the postal delivery chain. Original Dutch text:
    Post- en koeriersdiensten Aanbieders van postdiensten als bedoeld in artikel 2, onderdeel 1 bis, van Richtlijn 97/67/EG, met inbegrip van aanbieders van koeriersdiensten, voor zover zij ten minste een van de stappen in de postbestelketen verzorgen, met name het ophalen, sorteren, vervoeren en bestellen van postzendingen, met inbegrip van de ophaaldiensten […] Uitgezonderd zijn vervoersdiensten die niet in samenhang met een van die stappen worden ondernomen.
    Source, retrieved on 2 October 2026.
  3. [3] Cbw Art. 9(1) (Dutch Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw); Dutch law, unofficial translation). Designation as an essential entity: only for an entity named in Annex 1 or 2. Original Dutch text:
    1. Bij regeling of besluit van Onze Minister die het aangaat, na overleg met Onze Minister, wordt een in bijlage 1 of bijlage 2 van deze wet genoemde entiteit aangewezen als essentiële entiteit, op grond van de toepasselijkheid van één of meer van de volgende criteria:
    Source, retrieved on 2 October 2026.
  4. [4] Cyberbeveiligingsregeling IenW Art. 1 (Cyberbeveiligingsregeling IenW (Stcrt. 2026, 24093); Dutch law, unofficial translation). The Cyberbeveiligingsregeling IenW calls operators of intelligent transport systems ITS service providers and distinguishes ITS data providers. Original Dutch text:
    ITS-dataverstrekkers: aanbieders van mobiliteitsdata aan ITS-dienstverleners op basis van data ontvangen van (andere) ITS-dienstverleners; – ITS-dienstverleners: exploitanten van intelligente vervoerssystemen als bedoeld in artikel 4, onderdeel 1, van Richtlijn 2010/40/EU
    Source, retrieved on 2 October 2026.
  5. [5] Cbw, Annex 2 (Dutch Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw); Dutch law, unofficial translation). Annex 2 names wholesale of food and manufacture and distribution of chemical substances. Original Dutch text:
    Ondernemingen die stoffen vervaardigen en stoffen of mengsels distribueren als bedoeld in artikel 3, onderdelen 9 en 14, van Verordening (EG) nr. 1907/2006 […] Levensmiddelenbedrijven als bedoeld in artikel 3, onderdeel 2, Verordening (EG) nr. 178/2002 die zich bezighouden met groothandel en industriële productie en verwerking
    Source, retrieved on 2 October 2026.
  6. [6] Cbw, Annex 1 (Dutch Cyberbeveiligingswet (Cbw); Dutch law, unofficial translation). Annex 1, management of ICT services (business-to-business). Original Dutch text:
    Beheer van ICT-diensten (business-to-business) – Aanbieders van beheerde diensten – Aanbieders van beheerde beveiligingsdiensten
    Source, retrieved on 2 October 2026.

Next step

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