SECTORS OF HIGH CRITICALITY

1.

Energy

(a)

Electricity

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Electricity undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (57), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), which carry out the function of ‘supply’ as defined in Article 2, point (12), of that Directive

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Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (29), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

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Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

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Producers as defined in Article 2, point (38), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

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Nominated electricity market operators as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2)

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Market participants as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 providing aggregation, demand response or energy storage services as defined in Article 2, points (18), (20) and (59), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

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Operators of a recharging point that are responsible for the management and operation of a recharging point, which provides a recharging service to end users, including in the name and on behalf of a mobility service provider

(b)

District heating and cooling

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Operators of district heating or district cooling as defined in Article 2, point (19), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3)

(c)

Oil

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Operators of oil transmission pipelines

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Operators of oil production, refining and treatment facilities, storage and transmission

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Central stockholding entities as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Council Directive 2009/119/EC (4)

(d)

Gas

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Supply undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (5)

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Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Storage system operators as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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LNG system operators as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Natural gas undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Operators of natural gas refining and treatment facilities

(e)

Hydrogen

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Operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission

2.

Transport

(a)

Air

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Air carriers as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 used for commercial purposes

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Airport managing bodies as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (6), airports as defined in Article 2, point (1), of that Directive, including the core airports listed in Section 2 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (7), and entities operating ancillary installations contained within airports

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Traffic management control operators providing air traffic control (ATC) services as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (8)

(b)

Rail

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Infrastructure managers as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (9)

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Railway undertakings as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2012/34/EU, including operators of service facilities as defined in Article 3, point (12), of that Directive

(c)

Water

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Inland, sea and coastal passenger and freight water transport companies, as defined for maritime transport in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (10), not including the individual vessels operated by those companies

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Managing bodies of ports as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2005/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (11), including their port facilities as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, and entities operating works and equipment contained within ports

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Operators of vessel traffic services (VTS) as defined in Article 3, point (o), of Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (12)

(d)

Road

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Road authorities as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962 (13) responsible for traffic management control, excluding public entities for which traffic management or the operation of intelligent transport systems is a non-essential part of their general activity

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Operators of Intelligent Transport Systems as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (14)

3.

Banking

4.

Financial market infrastructures

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Operators of trading venues as defined in Article 4, point (24), of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (16)

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Central counterparties (CCPs) as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (17)

5.

Health

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Healthcare providers as defined in Article 3, point (g), of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (18)

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EU reference laboratories referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council (19)

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Entities carrying out research and development activities of medicinal products as defined in Article 1, point (2), of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (20)

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Entities manufacturing basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations referred to in section C division 21 of NACE Rev. 2

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Entities manufacturing medical devices considered to be critical during a public health emergency (public health emergency critical devices list) within the meaning of Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2022/123 of the European Parliament and of the Council (21)

6.

Drinking water

7.

Waste water

8.

Digital infrastructure

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Internet Exchange Point providers

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DNS service providers, excluding operators of root name servers

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TLD name registries

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Cloud computing service providers

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Data centre service providers

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Content delivery network providers

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Trust service providers

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Providers of public electronic communications networks

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Providers of publicly available electronic communications services

9.

ICT service management (business-to-business)

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Managed service providers

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Managed security service providers

10.

Public administration

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Public administration entities of central governments as defined by a Member State in accordance with national law

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Public administration entities at regional level as defined by a Member State in accordance with national law

11.

Space