Council Directive on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection European Union (27) (2008)

Council Directive 2008/114/EC
"This directive sets up a procedure for identifying and designating European critical infrastructures (ECIs) *. At the same time, it provides a common approach for assessing these infrastructures, with a view to improving them to better protect the needs of citizens.
Member States must go through a process of identifying potential ECIs, with the help of the Commission if required. Member States should make use of a series of criteria to identify these potential ECIs. The cross-cutting criteria take into account possible casualties and economic and public effects, while the sectoral criteria consider the specificities of each ECI sector. This directive currently concerns only the energy and transport sectors and their subsectors as identified in Annex I. Additional sectors might be added with the review of the directive." (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV:jl0013#KEYTERMS)