The CRA's reporting obligations do not switch on with the rest of the regulation. Article 14 applies from 11 September 2026, ahead of full conformity in December 2027, and binds manufacturers the moment a product becomes actively exploited.
Most vulnerabilities a manufacturer handles never trigger a report to authorities. The CRA's Article 14 duty is narrow: actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents affecting product security. Here is how to tell what is in scope.
Article 14 is a three-stage cascade: a 24-hour early warning, a 72-hour detailed notification, and a final report within 14 days or one month. Here is what each stage contains, when the clock starts, and the follow-up duties that continue afterward.
When an Article 14 event occurs, a manufacturer does not file with a single regulator. The CRA routes reports through one ENISA-operated platform to ENISA and the relevant national CSIRT at once, with onward distribution where needed.
Open Bug Bounty and CVD Portal both deal with vulnerability disclosure, but they serve entirely different purposes. One is a community-driven reporting network, the other is a regulatory compliance tool built for the European market.
The CRA's 24-hour clock is won or lost inside your own organisation, long before a report reaches ENISA. A practical guide to the detection sources, escalation paths, and decision authority that turn a vague late-night signal into a filed early warning.
Article 14 reporting should be the visible output of a healthy product security programme. This closing article shows how reporting connects to vulnerability handling, SBOM, secure development, and post-market surveillance.
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