The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, in a bid to better protect knowledge deemed critical to national security.
The expansion extends a 2023 law that already applies screenings to strategic sectors such as semiconductors and quantum computing. The broadened rules will affect hundreds of companies, according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
“The Netherlands is the target for cyber operations, espionage and sabotage. That is why, as a government, we must protect and strengthen our knowledge, innovations and businesses,” Economic Affairs Minister Heleen Herbert said in a ...