Recital 1 Role of critical entities

Critical entities means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex;, as providers of essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment;, play an indispensable role in the maintenance of vital societal functions or economic activities in the internal market in an increasingly interdependent Union economy. It is therefore essential to set out a Union framework with the aim of both enhancing the resilience means a critical entity’s ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, resist, mitigate, absorb, accommodate and recover from an incident; of critical entities means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; in the internal market by laying down harmonised minimum rules and assisting them by means of coherent and dedicated support and supervision measures.