Recital 49 Broad consultations before adopting implementing or delegated acts

The Commission should ensure that a wide range of relevant stakeholders are consulted in a structured and regular manner when preparing measures for the implementation of this Regulation. This should particularly be the case where the Commission assesses the need for potential updates to the lists of categories of important or critical products with digital elements means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;, where relevant manufacturers means a natural or legal person who develops or manufactures products with digital elements or has products with digital elements designed, developed or manufactured, and markets them under its name or trademark, whether for payment, monetisation or free of charge; should be consulted and their views taken into account in order to analyse the cybersecurity 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; as well as the balance of costs and benefits of designating such categories of products as important or critical.