CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES PROTECTION A ROMANIAN PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

In each EU Member States there are a certain number of critical infrastructures, the disruption or destruction of which is essential for the maintenance of vital societal functions, health, safety, security, economic or social well-being of people, and the disruption or destruction of which would have a significant impact at community, regional or Member State level as a result of the failure to maintain those functions and at the same time with significant cross-border impacts. This may include transboundary cross-sector effects resulting from interdependencies between interconnected infrastructures. The European Program for Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP) launched on 12 December 2006 has defined a list of European critical infrastructures and promoted their protection taking in consideration all hazard approach concept. The Directive EC 2008/114 constitutes a first step in a step-by-step approach to identify and designate ECIs and assess the need to improve their protection, concentrate on energy and transport sectors, establishing the procedure for the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures ("ECIs"). Romania, as EU Member State, shall take the necessary measures to comply with this Directive by 12 January 2011, date when shall inform the Commission with legislative harmonization aspects and communicate the text of those measures and their correlation with this Directive.

Keywords

• critical infrastructures
• protection
• concept
• energy
• directive
• European program.