Recital 7 Comprehensive and future-proof minimum rules

It is necessary to lay down harmonised minimum rules to ensure the provision 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; in the internal market, to enhance 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; and to improve cross-border cooperation between competent authorities. It is important that those rules be future proof in terms of their design and implementation while allowing for necessary flexibility. It is also crucial to improve the capacity 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; to provide essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment; in the face of a diverse set of risks means the potential for loss or disruption caused by an incident and is to be expressed as a combination of the magnitude of such loss or disruption and the likelihood of occurrence of the incident;.