Definition of terms:
a) “critical infrastructure” means a property, system or a part of them which is located in member states and is necessary for the maintenance of vital social functions, health, safety, the environmental, economic and social welfare of people, whose working malfunction or destruction, as a result of failure to maintain these functions, could have a significant impact in a member state;
b) “European critical infrastructure” or “ECI” means critical infrastructure located in member states, and whose malfunction or destruction would have a significant impact on at least two member states. The significance of the impact is assessed considering its cross-sector benchmarks. This includes effects which are a result of cross-sector dependencies on other types of infrastructure;
c) “risk analysis” means a consideration of relevant threat scenarios to assess the weaknesses and the potential impact in the malfunction or destruction of critical infrastructure;
d) “sensitive information about the protection of critical infrastructure” means facts about a critical infrastructure which, if discovered, could be used for planning and action with the aim of causing disruption in the work or the destruction of critical plant infrastructure;
e) “protection” means all activities aimed at ensuring the functionality, continuity and integrity of critical infrastructures in order to turn away, mitigate or neutralize the threat, risk or weakness;
f) “owners/operators of ECI” means that those entities that are responsible for investments in certain assets, a system or part of them that is based on this Directive are identified as ECI and/or for their daily work.