SECURITY PLAN AS A PART OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

Abstract

Critical infrastructure protection and its elements is a strategic task not only of the European Union, but also of the Slovak Republic. For this reasons the Slovak government has adopted the Act No. 45/2011 on Critical Infrastructure in 2011. This legislation implemented Council Directive 2008/114/EC on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection. The Act regulates the subject matter of the Act, definitions, organizations and competence of state administration in the area of critical infrastructure, sectorial and cross-cutting criteria, procedure for determining of the critical infrastructure elements, the obligations of the owner/operator, security plan, contact point between the owner/operator of the critical infrastructure element and the relevant Member State authority, the contain of the sensitive  critical infrastructure protection related information, removal the element from the sector, administrative offence. The Act provides a stage of the process determining of European critical infrastructure elements and development of a security plan, sectors and sub-sectors of critical infrastructure and the List of transposed legally binding acts of the European Union in four annexes. The Act enacts to owner/operator of critical infrastructure elements the obligation to process security plan and to proceed according to the security plan in case of disruption or destruction of the element. According to the Act on critical infrastructure the content of security plan especially contains description of the possible ways of element threat, disruption or destruction. It describes vulnerability of element and security measures for its security. The methodology of processing of the security plan is the aim of this article.