Recital 46 National financing mechanism for CSIRTs

Ensuring adequate resources to meet the objectives of this Directive and to enable the competent authoritiesas defined in Article 46 and the CSIRTscomputer security incident response teams to carry out the tasks laid down herein is essential. The Member States can introduce at the national level a financing mechanism to cover necessary expenditure in relation to the conduct of tasks of public entities means a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; responsible for cybersecurity means cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; in the Member State pursuant to this Directive. Such mechanism should comply with Union law and should be proportionate and non-discriminatory and should take into account different approaches to providing secure services.