"Chinese" you won't enter the unit

Is there gonna be an approval?

Restrictions shall besides include another motor vehicles fitted with integral or additional equipment capable of recording position, image or sound. This is about cars manufactured outside China and not belonging to Chinese brands. specified vehicles, unlike the popular Chinese, will be allowed to be in protected military facilities provided that certain functions are excluded and with appropriate preventive measures resulting from the protection rules of the facility. In an interview with “Polish Armed Forces”, Colonel Pietrzak pointed out an example of specified a safety – a correspondingly advanced parking fence, from which no delicate objects will be seen.

"Commanders, heads and commanders have been obliged to supply alternate parking places for vehicles subject to restrictions outside military units as far as possible", reads the following part of the Communication.

The regulations introduced do not concern military facilities of a common nature, specified as hospitals, clinics, libraries, prosecutors or garrison clubs. Nor do the restrictions include service vehicles and military equipment which are equipped with the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland. The sharpening will besides not be applied during rescue operations and operations carried out by state and local authorities, services, inspections and guards in the performance of statutory tasks.

According to the information provided by the SGWP, Gen. Kukuła asked the superiors to prepare specified method regulations and solutions to verify whether modern cars – equipped with extended systems for collecting data about the vehicle and its surroundings – are safe from the point of view of information protection. The aim is for manufacturers to be able to get a peculiar “safety approval” confirming that their cars are not a threat to delicate infrastructure. In practice, this means creating clear and non-discriminatory rules for the verification of specified vehicles on the Polish marketplace – so that each maker is subject to the same criteria, and the state is assured that cars moving close strategical facilities are not dangerous.

The root of the problem

Modern vehicles equipped with advanced communication systems and sensors are no longer just means of transport – they act like mobile data collection platforms. They evidence images from cameras, driving parameters, geolocation data and environmental information. That is why their presence in the vicinity of military facilities requires circumstantial safety regulations. As highlighted in the SGWP Communication, the measures introduced are preventive in nature and are in line with NATO and another allies' practices to guarantee the highest standards of defence infrastructure protection.

Why, however, peculiar concerns arise cars produced in the PRC? The legal and political context is crucial. Chinese law obliges the companies there to cooperate with safety services and share data at the request of the State. This means that the information collected by the vehicle, including those relating to its surroundings, could possibly be at the disposal of the Beijing authorities. In the case of crossings close military units, it would be data on the location of facilities, infrastructure or traffic patterns. Additional hazard is associated with LiDAR technology, which allows you to make very precise, three-dimensional terrain models. A car equipped with specified a strategy can make a detailed map of fences, buildings and access roads. If these data were aggregated and sent to the manufacturer's systems and subsequently made available to the Chinese authorities, they could become intelligence material. It is precisely the combination of method capacity and legal conditions of the PRC that is at the heart of the problem.