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The
move comes as a response to increasing concerns in Brussels
about certain national governments delaying action on the
matter, the officials told the newspaper.
EU and Huawei did not immediately respond to Reuters requests
for comment.
In 2020, the EU said member-states can either restrict or
exclude high-risk 5G vendors such as Huawei from core parts of
their telecoms network, and resisted pressure back then from
Washington for an outright ban on Chinese telcos.
In a meeting last Friday, the EU's internal market commissioner
Thierry Breton informed telecoms ministers that only a third of
EU countries had implemented Huawei bans in critical areas, the
report said.
As guidance fell short of a ban in 2020, EU could introduce a
mandatory ban on companies deemed to present a security risk,
should member-states such as Germany continue to delay, the
newspaper added.
Germany has been considering banning certain components from
Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE in its telecoms network, a
government source told Reuters in March, in a potentially
significant move to address security concerns.
(Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry
Jacob-Phillips)
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