Article 17 Identification of critical entities of particular European significance

1. has been identified as a critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; pursuant to Article 6(1);

2. provides the same or similar essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment; to or in six or more Member States; and

3. has been notified pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article.

Member States shall ensure that a critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex;, following the notification referred to in Article 6(3), informs its competent authority where it provides essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment; to or in six or more Member States. In such a case, Member States shall ensure that the critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; informs its competent authority of the essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment; it provides to or in those Member States and of the Member States to which or in which it provides such essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment;. Member States shall notify the Commission, without undue delay, of the identity of such critical entities means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; and of the information they provide under this paragraph.

The Commission shall consult the competent authority of the Member State which identified a critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; as referred to in the first subparagraph, the competent authority of other Member States concerned and the critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; in question. During those consultations, each Member State shall inform the Commission where it deems that the services provided to that Member State by the critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; are essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment;.

Where the Commission establishes, on the basis of the consultations referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, that the critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; concerned provides essential services means a service which is crucial for the maintenance of vital societal functions, economic activities, public health and safety, or the environment; to or in six or more Member States, the Commission shall notify that critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex;, through its competent authority, that it is considered a critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; of particular European significance and inform that critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; of its obligations under this Chapter and the date from which those obligations apply to it. Once the Commission informs the competent authority of its decision to consider a critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; as a critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; of particular European significance, the competent authority shall forward that notification to that critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; without undue delay.

This Chapter shall apply to the critical entity means a public or private entity which has been identified by a Member State in accordance with Article 6 as belonging to one of the categories set out in the third column of the table in the Annex; of particular European significance concerned from the date of receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article.