The Commission proposed on 16 December to ‘dust off’ its regulatory framework to protect critical infrastructure not only from cyberattacks, but also from other types of hazards, such as pandemics and other natural disasters.
While its framework dates back several years—or even as far back as the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States—and only covers threats of a terrorist nature, the Commission has also proposed extending the list of physical infrastructures to be...