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1. Where at least three Member States are committed to ensuring that their National Cyber Hubs work together to coordinate their cyber-detection and threat monitoring activities, those Member States may establish a Hosting Consortium for the purposes of this Regulation.

2. A Hosting Consortium shall be composed of at least three participating Member States that have agreed to establish and contribute to the acquisition of tools, infrastructure or services for, and the operation of, a Cross-Border Cyber Hub, in accordance with paragraph 4.

3. Where a Hosting Consortium is selected in accordance with Article 9(3), its members shall conclude a written consortium agreement which:

(a) sets out the internal arrangements for implementing the hosting and usage agreement referred to in Article 9(3);

(b) establishes the Hosting Consortium’s Cross-Border Cyber Hub; and (c) includes the specific clauses required pursuant to Article 6(1) and (2).

4. A Cross-Border Cyber Hub shall be a multi-country platform established by a written consortium agreement as referred to in paragraph 3. It shall bring together in a coordinated network structure the National Cyber Hubs of the Hosting Consortium’s Member States. It shall be designed to enhance the monitoring, detection and analysis of cyber threats, to prevent incidents and to support the production of cyber threat intelligence, in particular through the exchange of relevant data and information, anonymised where appropriate, as well as through the sharing of state-of-the-art tools and the joint development of cyber detection, analysis, and prevention and protection capabilities in a trusted environment.

5. A Cross-Border Cyber Hub shall be represented for legal purposes by a member of the corresponding Hosting Consortium acting as a coordinator, or by the Hosting Consortium if it has legal personality. Responsibility for compliance by the Cross-Border Cyber Hub with this Regulation and the hosting and usage agreement shall be allocated in the written consortium agreement referred to in paragraph 3.

6. A Member State may join an existing Hosting Consortium with the agreement of the Hosting Consortium members. The written consortium agreement referred to in paragraph 3 and the hosting and usage agreement shall be modified accordingly. This shall not affect the ownership rights of the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre (ECCC) over the tools, infrastructure or services already jointly procured with that Hosting Consortium.