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The Claim

France's Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI) and Germany's Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) have a mutual recognition agreement between France's Certification de sécurité de premier niveau (CSPN) and Germany's Beschleunigte Sicherheitszertifizierung (BSZ) frameworks, under which CSPN certificates are recognized in Germany with defined exceptions.

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The Short Version

The central statement is supported: ANSSI and BSI have a formal CSPN-BSZ mutual recognition arrangement, and ANSSI certificates can be recognized by BSI in Germany under it. The overstatement is the suggestion that the exceptions are clearly defined in public documentation. Available sources show carve-outs exist, but not a fully explicit public list of them.

Caveats

  • Public sources support exceptions in principle, but do not clearly publish a complete, enumerated list of all exception categories.
  • Recognition is framework-specific and not necessarily automatic for every product or regulatory use case; national rules or application notes may still limit acceptance.
  • This bilateral arrangement is separate from broader EU cybersecurity certification frameworks and should not be treated as universal EU-wide recognition.

The Receipts

  1. Renouvellement de l’accord de reconnaissance mutuelle CSPN-BSZ entre l’ANSSI et le BSI

    ANSSI / cyber.gouv.fr

  2. certificat anssi-cspn-2025/12

    ANSSI (cyber.gouv.fr)

  3. Regulation (EU) 2019/881 (Cybersecurity Act)

    EUR-Lex (European Union)

  4. ANSSI + BSI certification update

    Profitap

  5. Was ist CSPN?

    Security-Insider

  6. L’ANSSI et son homologue allemand reconnaissent mutuellement leurs certificats de sécurité CSPN et BSZ

    Solutions Numériques

  7. Accelerated Security Certification (BSZ)

    LANCOM Systems

  8. Beschleunigte Sicherheitszertifizierung (BSZ)

    Lancom Systems

  9. CSPN: What U.S. companies need to know about the security certification process

    Embedded Computing Design

  10. Beschleunigte Sicherheitszertifizierung (BSZ)

    TÜV Informationstechnik (TÜViT)

+ 7 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

Filed Under

Agence Nationale De La Sécurité Des Systèmes D'informationBeschleunigte SicherheitszertifizierungBundesamt Für Sicherheit In Der InformationstechnikCertification De Sécurité De Premier Niveau