Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER)
Table of Contents
Chapter I – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter II – NATIONAL FRAMEWORKS ON THE RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL ENTITIES
Chapter III – RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL ENTITIES
Chapter IV – CRITICAL ENTITIES OF PARTICULAR EUROPEAN SIGNIFICANCE
Chapter V – COOPERATION AND REPORTING
Chapter VI – SUPERVISION AND ENFORCEMENT
Chapter VII – DELEGATED AND IMPLEMENTING ACTS
Chapter VIII – FINAL PROVISIONS
Recitals (45)
Annexes
Recital 2
(2) Council European Critical Infrastructures Directive (ECI — repealed by CER) provides for a procedure for designating European critical infrastructure in the energy and transport sectors the disruption or destruction of which would have a significant cross-border impact on at least two Member States. That Directive focuses exclusively on the protection of such infrastructure. However, the evaluation of European Critical Infrastructures Directive (ECI — repealed by CER) conducted in 2019 found that, due to the increasingly interconnected and cross-border nature of operations using critical infrastructure, protective measures relating to individual assets alone are insufficient to prevent all disruptions from taking place. Therefore, it is necessary to shift the approach towards ensuring that risks are better accounted for, that the role and duties of critical entities as providers of services essential to the functioning of the internal market are better defined and coherent, and that Union rules are adopted to enhance the resilience of critical entities. Critical entities should be in a position to reinforce their ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, resist, mitigate, absorb, accommodate and recover from incidents that have the potential to disrupt the provision of essential services.