Recital 17 List of essential services

Member States should submit to the Commission, in a manner that fulfils the objectives of this Directive, a list 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;, the number 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; identified for each of the sectors and subsectors set out in the Annex and for the essential service means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment; or services that each entity provides and, if applied, thresholds. It should be possible to present thresholds as such or in aggregated form, meaning that the information can be averaged by geographic area, by year, by sector, by subsector or by other means, and can include information on the range of the indicators provided.