Recital 55 Public-private partnerships (PPP)

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the field of cybersecurity means cybersecurity as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; can provide an appropriate framework for knowledge exchange, the sharing of best practices and the establishment of a common level of understanding among stakeholders. Member States should promote policies underpinning the establishment of cybersecurity-specific PPPs. Those policies should clarify, inter alia, the scope and stakeholders involved, the governance model, the available funding options and the interaction among participating stakeholders with regard to PPPs. PPPs can leverage the expertise of private-sector 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; to assist the competent authoritiesas defined in Article 46 in developing state-of-the-art services and processes including information exchange, early warnings, cyber threat means a cyber threat as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; and incident means an incident as defined in Article 6, point (6), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555; exercises, crisis management and resilience planning.