The European Commission proposes a new directive to enhance the resilience of critical entities providing essential services

08 Jan 2021

How to make your critical infrastructure able to prevent, resist, absorb and recover from disruptive incidents?

Our well-being and the good functioning of the EU cities and infrastructures depend on the reliability of critical entities providing essential services, fundamental for societal or economic activities in many different sectors.

Therefore, the European Commission has recently proposed a new directive to enhance the resilience of Critical Infrastructure and create an all-hazards framework to support Member States in ensuring that critical entities are able to prevent, resist, absorb and recover from disruptive incidents, both natural and man-made.

The proposal covers ten sectors:  energy, transport, banking, financial market infrastructures, health, drinking water, waste water, digital infrastructure, public administration and space. 
3 key aspects of the directive are:

• Member States would be obligated to, among other things, have a strategy for ensuring the resilience of critical entities, carry out a national risk assessment and, on this basis, identify critical entities. 
• Critical entities would be required to carry out risk assessments of their own, take appropriate technical and organisational measures in order to boost resilience, and report disruptive incidents to national authorities.
• Critical entities providing services to or in at least one-third of Member States would be subject to specific oversight, including advisory missions organised by the Commission.

We are glad to provide critical Infrastructure owners, managers and operators (any sector), large company owning/managing critical assets (any sector), utilities, municipalities and authorities with a complete technical advisor service contributing to:

• increase asset performance and profitability
• reduce losses and preserve the business and service continuity
• reduce costs and time of recovery
• increase safety and reduce  human errors
•  improve awareness on risks and most likely scenarios, supporting planning and decision making
• integrate resilience plans into Business Continuity, Risks and Asset Management Plans

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