Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER)

(31) Ship and Port Facility Security Regulation and (EC) No 300/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Port Security Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establish requirements applicable to entities in the aviation and maritime transport sectors to prevent incidents caused by unlawful acts and to resist and mitigate the consequences of such incidents. While the measures required under this Directive are broader in terms of risks addressed and types of measures to be taken, critical entities in those sectors should reflect in their resilience plan or equivalent documents the measures taken pursuant to those other Union legal acts. Critical entities are also to take into consideration Directive 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , which introduces a network-wide road assessment to map the risk of accidents and a targeted road safety inspection to identify hazardous conditions, defects and problems that increase the risk of accidents and injuries, based on site visits of existing roads or sections of roads. Ensuring the protection and resilience of critical entities is of the utmost importance for the railway sector and, when implementing resilience measures under this Directive, critical entities are encouraged to refer to non-binding guidelines and good practices documents developed under sectorial workstreams, such as the EU Rail Passenger Security Platform set up by Commission Decision 2018/C 232/03 .