This Law regulates rules and issues regarding national and European critical infrastructures, sectors of national critical infrastructures, management of critical infrastructures, creation of Risk Analysis, Security Plan of the owner/manager, security coordinator for critical infrastructure, handling of sensitive and classified data and supervision over the effective implementation of the rules here provided. This Law also adopts the terms prescribed in the Council Directive 2008/114/EC of 8 December 2008 on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection. Risk analysis means the consideration of possible threat scenarios in order to assess vulnerabilities and the possible effect of disruptions in the operation of critical infrastructure or its destruction; European critical infrastructure means critical infrastructure that is of interest to at least two member states, or one member state, and is located on the territory of another member state. Protection of critical infrastructure refers to activities aimed at ensuring the functionality, continuous operation and delivery of services/goods of critical infrastructure and preventing threats to critical infrastructure. National critical infrastructures are systems, networks and facilities of national importance whose interruption of operation or interruption of the supply of goods or services may have serious consequences for national security, health and lives of people, property and the environment, security and economic stability and uninterrupted functioning of government. Sectors of national critical infrastructures can be particularly: energy (production, including reservoirs and dams, transmission, storage, transportation of energy products and energy, distribution systems); communication and information technology (electronic communications, data transmission, information systems, provision of audio and audiovisual media services); traffic (road, rail, air, sea and inland waterways); healthcare (health care, production, distribution and supervision of medicines); water management (regulatory and protective water structures and communal water structures); food (food production and supply and food safety system, commodity stocks); finance (banking, stock exchanges, investments, insurance and payment systems); production, storage and transportation of dangerous substances (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials); public services (ensuring public order and peace, protection and rescue, emergency medical assistance); national monuments and values.
Croatia · 2013-04-26