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S.I. No. 559/2024 - European Union (Resilience of Critical Entities) Regulations 2024

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(1)of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (No. 23 of 1999), which carry out the function of supply,

Article 2

(12)of Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 201916 . (ii) Distribution system operators

section 2

(1)of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (No. 23 of 1999). (iii) Transmission system operators

section 2

(1)of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (No. 23 of 1999). (iv) Producers

Article 2

(38)of Directive (EU) 2019/94416 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019. (v) Nominated electricity market operators

Article 2(8) of the Electricity Regulation.

(vi) Market participants

Article 2

(25)of the Electricity Regulation providing aggregation, demand response or energy storage services,

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(1)of the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 (No. 23 of 1999). (b) District heating and cooling Operators of district heating or district cooling,

Regulation 2 of the European Union (Renewable Energy) Regulations

(2)2022 ( S.I. No. 350 of 2022 ). (
  1. c)Oil (
  2. i)Operators of oil transmission pipelines (
  3. ii)Operators of oil production, refining and treatment facilities, storage and transmission. (iii) Central stockholding entities

Article 2(f) of Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 200917 .

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  1. d)Gas (
  2. i)Supply undertakings

Article 2(29) of the Gas Directive.

(ii) Distribution system operators

Article 2(20) of the Gas Directive.

(iii) Transmission system operators

Article 2(18) of the Gas Directive.

(iv) Natural gas storage system operators

Article 2(32) of the Gas Directive.

(v) LNG system operators

Article 2(34) of the Gas Directive.

(

  1. vi)Natural gas undertakings within the meaning of the Gas Directive. (vii) Operators of natural gas refining and treatment facilities. (
  2. e)Hydrogen Operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission. 2. Transport (
  3. a)Air (
  4. i)Air carriers,

Article 3

(4)of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 200818 , as amended, used for commercial purposes. (ii) Airport managing bodies,

paragraph

(2)of Article 2 of Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 200919 , as amended, and airports,

paragraph

(1)of that Article 2, including the core airports of the core network identified in Regulation (EU) 2024/1679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 202420 , and entities operating ancillary installations contained within airports. (iii) Traffic management control operators providing air traffic control (ATC) services

Article 2

(1)of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 200421 . (b) Rail (i) Infrastructure managers

Regulation 2 of the European Union (Regulation of Railways) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No 249 of 2015 ). (ii) Railway undertakings,

Regulation 2 of the European Union (Regulation of Railways) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No 249 of 2015 ). (

  1. c)Water (
  2. i)Inland, sea and coastal passenger and freight water transport companies, as defined for maritime transport in Annex I to the Ship and Port Facility Regulation, not including the individual vessels operated by those companies. (
  3. ii)Managing bodies of ports

Article 3

(1)of Directive 2005/65/EC of 26 October 200522 , as amended, including their port facilities,

Article 2

(11)of the Ship and Port Facility Regulation and entities operating works and equipment contained within ports. (iii) Operators of vessel traffic services (VTS)

Article 3

(

  1. o)of Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 200223 , as amended. (
  2. d)Road (
  3. i)Road authorities,

Article 2

(12)of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962 of 18 December 201424 , responsible for traffic management control, other than public entities for whom traffic-management or the operation of intelligent transport systems is a non-essential part of their general activity. (ii) Operators of Intelligent Transport Systems

Article 4

(1)of Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 201025 , as amended. (e) public transport Public service operators

Article 2

(d) of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 200726 , as amended. 3. Banking Credit institutions

Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of 26 June 201327 , as amended.

4. Financial market infrastructure (i) Operators of trading venues

Article 4(24) of Directive 2014/65/EU of 15 May 201428 , as amended.

(ii) Central counterparties (CCPs)

Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of 4 July 201229 , as amended.

5. Health (i) Healthcare providers

Regulation 3 of the European Union (Application of Patients’ Rights in Cross-Border Healthcare) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No 203 of 2014 ). (ii) EU reference laboratories as referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 202230 . (iii) Entities carrying out research and development activities of medicinal products,

Article 1(2) of the Medicinal Products Directive.

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  1. iv)Entities manufacturing basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations as referred to in Division 21 of Section C of Annex 1 to NACE Rev. 2. (
  2. v)Entities manufacturing medical devices on the public health emergency critical devices list, within the meaning of Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2022/123 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 January 202231 , as amended. (
  3. vi)Entities holding a distribution authorisation within the meaning of Title VII of the Medicinal Products Directive. 6. Drinking water Suppliers and distributors of water intended for human consumption

Article 2

(1)(a) of Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 202032 , other than distributors for which distribution of water for human consumption is a non-essential part of their general activity of distributing other commodities and goods. 7. Waste water Undertakings collecting, disposing of, or treating, urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water,

article 2 of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 254 of 2001 ) respectively, other than undertakings for which collecting, disposing of, or treating, urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water is a non-essential part of their general activity. 8. Digital infrastructure (i) Providers of internet exchange points

Article 6(18) of the NIS 2 Directive.

(ii) DNS service providers

Article 6(20) of the NIS 2 Directive, other than operators of root name servers.

(iii) top-level-domain name registries

Article 6(21) of the NIS 2 Directive.

(iv) Providers of cloud computing services

Article 6(30) of the NIS 2 Directive.

(v) Providers of data centre services

Article 6(31) of the NIS 2 Directive.

(vi) Providers of content delivery networks

Article 6(32) of the NIS 2 Directive.

(vii) Trust service providers

Article 3

(19)of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 201433 . (viii) Providers of electronic communications networks,

Regulation 2

(1)of the European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022 ( S.I. No. 444 of 2022 ), insofar as their networks are publicly available. (ix) Providers of electronic communications services,

Regulation 2 of the European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022 ( S.I. No. 444 of 2022 ), insofar as their services are publicly available.

  1. Public administration Ministers of the Government.
  2. Space Operators of ground-based infrastructure in the State, owned, managed and operated by private parties, that support the provision of space-based services, excluding providers of public electronic communications networks

Regulation 2 of the European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022 ( S.I. No. 444 of 2022 ). 11. Food production, processing and distribution Food businesses

Article 3

(2)of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 200234 , as amended, that are engaged exclusively in logistics and wholesale distribution and large scale industrial production and processing. GIVEN under my Official Seal, 15 October,
  1. MICHEÁL MARTIN, Minister for Defence. EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) These Regulations are made by the Minister for Defence for the purpose of giving full effect to the State’s obligations on the resilience of critical entities under Directive (EU) 2022/2557 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 20221 and further effect to the State’s obligations under Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/24502 of 25 July
  2. 1 OJ No. L 333, 27.12.2022, p.
  3. 2 OJ No. L 2023/2450, 30.10.
  4. 2 OJ No. L 2023/2450, 30.10.
  5. 1 OJ No. L 333, 27.12.2022, p.
  6. 3 OJ No. L 333, 27.12.2022, p.
  7. 4 OJ No. L 119, 04.05.2016, p.
  8. 5 OJ No. L 347, 20.12.2013, p.
  9. 6 OJ No. L 333, 27.12.2022, p.
  10. 7 OJ No. L 124, 20.05.2003, p.
  11. 8 OJ No. L 280, 28.10.2017, p.
  12. 9 OJ No. L 158, 14.06.2019, p.
  13. 10 OJ No. L 88, 31.03.2017, p.
  14. 11 OJ No. L 158, 14.06.2019, p.
  15. 12 OJ No. L 2024/1788, 15.07.
  16. 13 OJ No. L 311, 28.11.2001, p.
  17. 14 OJ No. L 293, 24.10.1990, p.
  18. 15 OJ No. L 129, 29.04.2004, p.
  19. 16 OJ No. L 158, 14.06.2019, p.
  20. 16 OJ No. L 158, 14.06.2019, p.
  21. 17 OJ No. L 265, 09.10.2009, p.
  22. 18 OJ No. L 97, 09.04.2008, p.
  23. 19 OJ No. L 70, 14.03.2009, p.
  24. 20 OJ No. L 2024/1679, 28.06.
  25. 21 OJ No. L 96, 31.03.2004, p.
  26. 22 OJ No. L 310, 25.11.2005, p.
  27. 23 OJ No. L 208, 05.08.2002, p.
  28. 24 OJ No. L 157, 23.06.2015, p.
  29. 25 OJ No. L 207, 06.08.2010, p.
  30. 26 OJ No. L 315, 03.12.2007, p.
  31. 27 OJ No. L 176, 27.06.2013, p.
  32. 28 OJ No. L 173, 12.06.2014, p.
  33. 29 OJ No. L 201, 27.07.2012, p.
  34. 30 OJ No. L 314, 06.12.2022, p.
  35. 31 OJ No. L 20, 31.01.2022, p.
  36. 32 OJ No. L 435, 23.12.2020, p.
  37. 33 OJ No. L 257, 28.08.2014, p.
  38. 34 OJ No. L 31, 01.02.2002, p.
  39. 1 OJ No. L 333, 27.12.2022, p.
  40. 2 OJ No. L 2023/2450, 30.10.
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