Sectors

Subsectors

Categories of entities

1.

 Energy

(a)

 Electricity

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Electricity undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (57), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1), which carry out the function of ‘supply’ as defined in Article 2, point (12), of that Directive

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Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (29), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

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Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

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Producers as defined in Article 2, point (38), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

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Nominated electricity market operators as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council(2)

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Market participants as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 providing aggregation, demand response or energy storage services as defined in Article 2, points (18), (20) and (59), of Directive (EU) 2019/944

(b)

 District heating and cooling

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Operators of district heating or district cooling as defined in Article 2, point (19), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council(3)

(c)

 Oil

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Operators of oil transmission pipelines

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Operators of oil production, refining and treatment facilities, storage and transmission

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Central stockholding entities as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Council Directive 2009/119/EC(4)

(d)

 Gas

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Supply undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(5)

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Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Storage system operators as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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LNG system operators as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Natural gas undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive 2009/73/EC

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Operators of natural gas refining and treatment facilities

(e)

 Hydrogen

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Operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission

2.

 Transport

(a)

 Air

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Air carriers as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 used for commercial purposes

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Airport managing bodies as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(6), airports as defined in Article 2, point (1), of that Directive, including the core airports listed in Section 2 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council(7), and entities operating ancillary installations contained within airports

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Traffic management control operators providing air traffic control (ATC) services as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(8)

(b)

 Rail

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Infrastructure managers as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(9)

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Railway undertakings as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2012/34/EU and operators of service facilities as defined in Article 3, point (12), of that Directive

(c)

 Water

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Inland, sea and coastal passenger and freight water transport companies, as defined for maritime transport in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, not including the individual vessels operated by those companies

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Managing bodies of ports as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2005/65/EC, including their port facilities as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, and entities operating works and equipment contained within ports

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Operators of vessel traffic services (VTS) as defined in Article 3, point (o), of Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(10)

(d)

 Road

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Road authorities as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962(11) responsible for traffic management control, excluding public entities for whom traffic-management or the operation of intelligent transport systems is a non-essential part of their general activity

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Operators of Intelligent Transport Systems as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(12)

(e)

 public transport

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Public service operators as defined in Article 2, point (d), of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council(13)

3.

 Banking

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Credit institutions as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013

4.

 Financial market infrastructure

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Operators of trading venues as defined in Article 4, point (24), of Directive 2014/65/EU

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Central counterparties (CCPs) as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012

5.

 Health

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Healthcare providers as defined in Article 3, point (g), of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(14)

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EU reference laboratories as referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council(15)

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Entities carrying out research and development activities of medicinal products as defined in Article 1, point (2), of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(16)

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Entities manufacturing basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations as referred to in Section C division 21 of NACE Rev. 2

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Entities manufacturing medical devices considered as critical during a public health emergency (‘public health emergency critical devices list’) within the meaning of Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2022/123 of the European Parliament and of the Council(17)

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Entities holding a distribution authorisation as referred to in Article 79 of Directive 2001/83/EC

6.

 Drinking water

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Suppliers and distributors of water intended for human consumption as defined in Article 2, point (1)(a), of Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council(18), excluding distributors for which distribution of water for human consumption is a non-essential part of their general activity of distributing other commodities and goods

7.

 Waste water

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Undertakings collecting, disposing of or treating urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water as defined in Article 2, points (1), (2) and (3), of Council Directive 91/271/EEC(19), excluding undertakings for which collecting, disposing of or treating urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water is a non-essential part of their general activity

8.

 Digital infrastructure

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Providers of internet exchange points as defined in Article 6, point (18), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555

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 DNS service providers as defined in Article 6, point (20), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555, excluding operators of root name servers

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top-level-domain name registries as defined in Article 6, point (21), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555

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Providers of cloud computing services as defined in Article 6, point (30), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555

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Providers of data centre services as defined in Article 6, point (31), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555

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Providers of content delivery networks as defined in Article 6, point (32), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555

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Trust service providers as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council(20)

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Providers of public electronic communications networks as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council(21)

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Providers of electronic communications services as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 insofar as their services are publicly available

9.

 Public administration

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Public administration entities of central governments as defined by Member States in accordance with national law

10.

 Space

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Operators of ground-based infrastructure, owned, managed and operated by Member States or by private parties, that support the provision of space-based services, excluding providers of public electronic communications networks as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972

11.

 Production, processing and distribution of food

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Food businesses as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council(22) which are engaged exclusively in logistics and wholesale distribution and large scale industrial production and processing

(1) Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity and amending Directive 2012/27/EU (OJ L 158, 14.6.2019, p. 125).
(2) Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity (OJ L 158, 14.6.2019, p. 54).
(3) Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity (OJ L 158, 14.6.2019, p. 54).
(4) Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 2009 imposing an obligation on Member States to maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products (OJ L 265, 9.10.2009, p. 9).
(5) Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55/EC (OJ L 211, 14.8.2009, p. 94).
(6) Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on airport charges (OJ L 70, 14.3.2009, p. 11).
(7) Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network and repealing Decision No 661/2010/EU (OJ L 348, 20.12.2013, p. 1).
(8) Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 laying down the framework for the creation of the single European sky (the framework Regulation) (OJ L 96, 31.3.2004, p. 1).
(9) Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 establishing a single European railway area (OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 32).
(10) Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system and repealing Council Directive 93/75/EEC (OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 10).
(11) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962 of 18 December 2014 supplementing Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the provision of EU-wide real-time traffic information services (OJ L 157, 23.6.2015, p. 21).
(12) Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on the framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in the field of road transport and for interfaces with other modes of transport (OJ L 207, 6.8.2010, p. 1).
(13) Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and by road and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 1191/69 and 1107/70 (OJ L 315, 3.12.2007, p. 1).
(14) Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross–border healthcare (OJ L 88, 4.4.2011, p. 45).
(15) Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 November 2022 on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU (OJ L 314, 6.12.2022, p. 26).
(16) Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the community code relating to medicinal products for human use (OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 67).
(17) Regulation (EU) 2022/123 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 January 2022 on a reinforced role for the European Medicines Agency in crisis preparedness and management for medicinal products and medical devices (OJ L 20, 31.1.2022, p. 1).
(18) Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (OJ L 435, 23.12.2020, p. 1).
(19) Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment (OJ L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40).
(20) Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 73).
(21) Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communication Code (OJ L 321, 17.12.2018, p. 36).
(22) Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1).