European critical infrastructure risk and safety management: Directive implementation in practice

Abstract

Critical Infrastructure Protection began to be actively addressed in Europe in 2005, when the European Union issued a Call for a European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection (further only CIP) that first drew attention to the fact that several sectors and their elements were significant for todaýs society-and that their failure could have serious impacts on national security, the economy, public administration and the basic vital functions of member stateś populations. Three years later, the EC issued European Council Directive 2008/114/EC, which requires Member States to identify the European Critical Infrastructure Elements (further only CI). Based on the above, the paper deals with risk assessment process in context of CI protection and resilience in the Czech Republic. Paper presents the practical conclusions resulting from the obligations of this Directivés implementation in connection with the Czech legal environment and CI. Due to the fact that the Czech Republic-as one of the few member states of the European Union that has identified European CI in its territories, discusses practical approaches to the protection and resilience of these elements. These approaches are addressed in relation to Risk and Safety Management from the perspective of the application and implementation of deliverable outputs resulting from Security Research. In this context, selected methodologies that optimise Risk and Safety/Security Management are also presented, which fulfil the requirements for CÍs crisis-preparedness plans as equivalents to an Operator Security Plan. Practical benefit of this paper is seen through the real implementation of public-private-partnership into the risk assessment process and CIP which is discussed in the following text. © Copyright 2016, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.