Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER)

(36) On a reasoned request from the Commission or from one or more Member States to or in which the essential service is provided, where additional information is necessary to be able to advise a critical entity in meeting its obligations under this Directive or to assess the compliance of a critical entity of particular European significance with those obligations, the Member State that has identified a critical entity of particular European significance as a critical entity should provide the Commission with certain information as set out in this Directive. In agreement with the Member State that has identified the critical entity of particular European significance as a critical entity, the Commission should be able to organise an advisory mission to assess the measures put in place by that entity. In order to ensure that such advisory missions are carried out properly, complementary rules should be established, in particular on the organisation and conduct of the advisory missions, the follow-up actions to be taken and the obligations for the critical entities of particular European significance concerned. The advisory mission should, without prejudice to the need for the Member State in which the advisory mission is conducted and the critical entity concerned to comply with the rules laid down in this Directive, be conducted subject to the detailed rules of the law of that Member State, for instance on the precise conditions to be fulfilled in order to obtain access to relevant premises or documents and on judicial redress. Specific expertise required for such advisory missions could, where relevant, be requested through the Emergency Response Coordination Centre established by Union Civil Protection Mechanism Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council .