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"The book provides the basis, methodological framework, current state, and first comprehensive analysis of the function of the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection. Current member, and prospective member countries, are discussed as are regional and international partnerships"--

External Dimension of the European Union's Critical Infrastructure Protection Programme: From Neighboring Frameworks to Transatlantic Cooperation provides the basis, methodological framework, and first comprehensive analysis of the current state of the external dimension European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection. The challenges at the EU level are multidimension insofar as identifying, designating and protecting critical infrastructures with the ultimate goal of harmonizing different national policies of the Member States and creating the identity of the European Union in this arena. Modern society has become so reliant on various sectors of critical infrastructure--energy, telecommunications, transport, finance, ICT, and public services--that any disruption may lead to serious failures that impact individuals, society, and the economy. The importance of critical infrastructures grows with the industrial development of global and national communities; their interdependence and resiliency is increasingly important given security threats including terrorism, natural disaster, climate change and pandemic outbreak In the area of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience, the European Union is constantly committed to setting the objectives for the Member States. At the same time, the European Commission promotes the importance of a common approach to Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and ensure cooperation beyond the borders of the Union, while also cooperating with neighboring countries, including those soon willing to join the European Union. This book has been structured and written to contribute to current critical infrastructures, resilience policy development and discussions about regional and international cooperation. It serves as a reference for those countries willing to initiate cooperation and that therefore demand deeper knowledge on the security cultures and frameworks of their potential partners. Features: Provides an unprecedented analysis of the national frameworks of 14 neighboring countries of the EU, plus the United States and Canada Overcomes the language barriers to provide an overall picture of the state of play of the countries considered Outlines the shaping of national critical infrastructure protection frameworks to understanding the importance of service stability and continuity Presents guidelines to building a comprehensive and flexible normative framework Addresses the strategic and operational importance of international co-operation on critical infrastructure including efforts in CIP education and training Provides insight to institutions and decision-makers on existing policies and ways to improve the European security agenda The book explains and advocates for establishing stronger, more resilient systems to preserve functionalities at the local, national, and international levels. Security, industry, and policy experts--both practitioners and policy decision-makers--looking for answers will find the solutions they seek within this book.

Behavioral "insight" in the policy for European Critical Infrastructure Protection Special focus on the matter of compliance and how to draft the Operator Security Plans Includes previsions on what to expect from the future challenges for Critical Infrastructure Protection.

The recent European Council Directive 114/08 requested the EU Member States to perform an assessment aimed at the identification and designation of the so-called European Critical Infrastructures (ECI). Every analysis of the results of the "first round" of identifications and designations has only taken into account the numbers of ECIs effectively designated, consequently leaving aside all of the other elements related to this important path towards a harmonized vision of the "European Security." This work, with its unprecedented approach, focuses on the elements that have maximized or frustrated the ambitious European objectives and on the issues that might have prevented the directive reaching its full potential. Furthermore, the study offers an in-depth perspective on the lessons learned-including those that can be learned from the "U.S." pre-post 9/11 CIP policies-as well as an assessment of the state of play of the Member States after the implementation of the directive, together with predictions for future challenges

This article aims to contribute to the development of legal research on the regulation of resilience by analysing how to operationalize the resilience paradigm in the area of European Critical Infrastructures (ECIs). ECIs are those assets providing essential services which disruption or collapse is able to produce transboundary externalities in more than one Member State; that is, at regional levels or throughout the European Union (EU).Today's protection of ECIs focuses on the promotion of resilience as a fundamental characteristic that preserves the functioning of services in disaster-related situations. The resilience paradigm raises significant challenges to EU law and regulation. First, law itself has to become familiar with the undetermined concept of resilience. Second, in order to avoid unjustified burdens on operators and on the collectivity as a whole, law has to understand to what extent it is able to infuse with resilience ECIs' organization and governance. In this task, policy is a complementary tool that supports law in the understanding of resilience.

Over the course of 2021, UBA commissioned a series of workshops on the topic of climate resilient infrastructure systems to discuss why research outputs are not more consistently transferred into practice of infrastructure operation. This paper presents the outcomes of this process. It presents barriers for successful transfer of research outputs into practice and for each barrier provides recommendations to overcome them. The identified key lessons for facilitating climate resilience of infrastructure systems are: (i) A better approach to knowledge co-production is needed at all stages of research, including the explicit inclusion of a trust-building phase between researchers and users; (ii) Frameworks related to funding, standards, and regulations need to be systematically assessed to determine whether and why they might facilitate or hinder the uptake of research results; (iii) Existing capacity to raise Technology Readiness Levels needs to be increased, e.g., by providing funding programs that support long-term collaboration among successful consortia; (iv) There is a need for European and national services to support long-term access to research results; (v) More capacity needs to be provided for education and training of users; (vi) There is a need for improved cross-sector applicability through harmonization of methods, data formats, and terminology; and (vii) A mechanism is needed to support the extension of already well-established (but potentially sector-specific) research results for critical infrastructure systems. The target audiences for these recommendations are funding bodies, policy makers, and standardization bodies that can influence the framework conditions under which infrastructure resilience research takes place, research project coordinators and other academic/researcher institutions who are often the main responsible for the design of research projects, and practitioners who design and manage (critical) infrastructure systems.