RECIPE – Good Practices for CIP Policy-Makers

All European Union Member States are obliged by European Council Directive 2008/114/EC to identify and designate European critical infrastructure (ECI) and to assess the need to improve their protection. is obligation stimulated Member States to also look at their national critical infrastructures. However, it was discovered that there is a limited exchange of experience and knowledge between nations about how to develop CIP policies and how to successfully implement them. erefore, nations sometimes reinvent the CIP “wheel” or find themselves trapped in the same pitfalls explored and experienced by other nations.