Article 8 Critical entities in the banking, financial market infrastructure and digital infrastructure sectors

Member States shall ensure that Article 11 and Chapters III, IV and VI do not apply to 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; that they have identified in the sectors set out in points 3, 4 and 8 of the table in the Annex. Member States may adopt or maintain provisions of national law to achieve a higher level of resilience means a critical entity’s ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, resist, mitigate, absorb, accommodate and recover from an incident; for those 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;, provided that those provisions are consistent with applicable Union law.