Critical Infrastructure Sector

Each national or international strategy and policy identifies different categories of sectors that are considered to offer vital services and thus require protection. A 2008 survey examined the policies of 25 countries and identifies as the most frequently mentioned the following sectors, taken up later in the :

• Banking and Finance (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja finance)
• Central Government / Government Services [?]
• (Tele-)Communication / Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja informacijsko in komunikacijsko podporo)
• Emergency / Rescue Services [?]
• Energy / Electricity (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja energetsko podporo)
• Health Services (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja zdravstveno oskrbo)
• Transportation / Logistics / Distribution (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja prometne povezave)
• Water (supply) (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja preskrbo s pitno vodo)
• Food (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja preskrbo s hrano)
• Envoronmental Protection (Sektor kritične infrastrukture, ki zagotavlja varstvo okolja)

The study comments that "these are the core sectors of modern societies, and possibly the areas where a large-scale interruption would be most devastating" .

Definitions

European Definitions

Council Directive 2022/2557 (CER Directive)

Sectors	Subsectors	Categories of entities
1. Energy	(a) Electricity	Electricity undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (57), of of the European Parliament and of the Council, which carry out the function of ‘supply’ as defined in Article 2, point (12), of that Directive
		Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (29), of
		Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (35), of
		Producers as defined in Article 2, point (38), of
		Nominated electricity market operators as defined in Article 2, point (8), of of the European Parliament and of the Council
		Market participants as defined in Article 2, point (25), of providing aggregation, demand response or energy storage services as defined in Article 2, points (18), (20) and (59), of
	(b) District heating and cooling	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
	(c) Oil	Supply undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (8), of of the European Parliament and of the Council
		Operators of oil production, refining and treatment facilities, storage and transmission
		Central stockholding entities as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Council of
	(d) Gas	Supply undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (8), of of the European Parliament and of the Council
		Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (6), of
		Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (4), of
		Storage system operators as defined in Article 2, point (10), of
		Operators of natural gas refining and treatment facilities
	(e) Hydrogen	Operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission
2. Transport	(a) Air	Air carriers as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 used for commercial purposes
		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
		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
	(b) Rail	Infrastructure managers as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council
		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	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
		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
		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	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
		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
	(e) Public Transport	Public service operators as defined in Article 2, point (d), of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council
3. Banking		Credit institutions as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
4. Financial market infrastructure		Operators of trading venues as defined in Article 4, point (24), of Directive 2014/65/EU
		Central counterparties (CCPs) as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012
5. Health		Healthcare providers as defined in Article 3, point (g), of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council
		EU reference laboratories as referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council
		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
		Entities manufacturing basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations as referred to in Section C division 21 of NACE Rev. 2
		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
		Entities holding a distribution authorisation as referred to in Article 79 of Directive 2001/83/EC
6. Drinking Water		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		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		Providers of internet exchange points as defined in Article 6, point (18), of
		DNS service providers as defined in Article 6, point (20), of , excluding operators of root name servers
		top-level-domain name registries as defined in Article 6, point (21), of
		Providers of cloud computing services as defined in Article 6, point (30), of
		Providers of data centre services as defined in Article 6, point (31), of
		Providers of content delivery networks as defined in Article 6, point (32), of
		Trust service providers as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council
		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)
		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		Public administration entities of central governments as defined by Member States in accordance with national law
10. Space		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		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

Council Directive 2008/114/EC

The EU directive identifies the following two sectors and their respective sub-sectors :

I Energy

1. Electricity: Infrastructures and facilities for generation and transmission of electricity in respect of supply electricity
2. Oil: Oil production, refining, treatment, storage and transmission by pipelines
3. Gas: (a) Gas production, refining, treatment, storage and transmission by pipelines, (b) LNG terminals

II Transport

1. Road transport
2. Rail transport
3. Air transport
4. Inland waterways transport
5. Ocean & short sea shipping and ports

Resilience of critical entities COM/2020/829 final

The EU proposed directive identifies the following sectors and their respective sub-sectors :

Sector	Subsector
Energy	Electricity
	District Heating
	Oil
	Gas
	Hydrogen
Transport	Air
	Rail
	Water (inland, sea, coastal passenger and freight; ports)
	Road
Banking
Financial Market Infrastructures
Health
Drinking Water
Waste Water
Digital Infrastructure	(IX, DSN, TLD, Cloud, Data centre service, Content delivery, Trust services, NIS Directive)
Public Administration
Space	(ground-based infrastructure)

Other International Definitions

UNISDR

UNISDR presents the following examples of critical infrastructures:

transport systems, air and sea ports, electricity, water and communications systems, hospitals and health clinics, and centres for fire, police and public administration services.

National Definitions

Argentina

Líneas vitales/Infraestructuras críticas SUBSECRETARÍA DE PROTECCIÓN CIVIL Y ABORDAJE INTEGRAL DE EMERGENCIAS Y CATÁSTROFES (1/2015):

1. Energía: presas, subestaciones, líneas de fluido eléctrico, plantas de almacenamiento de combustibles, oleoductos, gasoductos.
2. Transporte: redes viales, puentes, terminales de transporte, aeropuertos, puertos fluviales y marítimos.
3. Agua: plantas de tratamiento, acueductos, alcantarillados, canales de irrigación y conducción.
4. Comunicaciones: redes y plantas telefónicas, estaciones de radio y televisión, oficinas de correo e información pública.

Australia

Critical Infrastructure Sector - see section 8D of

In 2023, the Australian critical infrastructure includes the following sectors :

1. Communications
2. Financial services and markets
3. Data storage or processing
4. Defence industry
5. Higher education and research
6. Energy
7. Food and grocery
8. Health care and medical
9. Space technology
10. Transport
11. Water and sewerage

Australia recognises 22 Critical Infrastructure assets as part of these sectors.

Formerly, Australia's national critical infrastructure is categorised by seven critical sectors :

1. Energy
2. Water services
3. Communications
4. Transport
5. Food Chain
6. Health
7. Banking & Finance

Austria

Austria's national critical infrastructure is categorised by thirteen critical sectors :

1. Energy
2. ICT
3. Water
4. Food
5. Health
6. Finance
7. Transport
8. Chemical industry
9. Research
10. Constitutional institutions
11. Social system
12. Distribution system
13. Search and Rescue

Azerbaijan

Defined by decreet "Azərbaycan Respublikasında kritik informasiya infrastrukturunun təhlükəsizliyinin təmin edilməsi qaydaları”nın təsdiq edilməsi haqqında"

1. dövlət idarəçiliyi
2. müdafiə
3. səhiyyə
4. maliyyə bazarları
5. energetika
6. nəqliyyat
7. informasiya texnologiyaları
8. telekommuni kasiya
9. su təchizatı və ya ekologiya sahələri üzrə informasiya sistemləri
10. avtomatlaşdırılmış idarəetmə sistemləri və informasiya kommunikasiya şəbəkələri vasitəsilə həyata keçirilən fəaliyyət prosesləri müəyyən edilir

Bahrein

The seven CNI sectors are:

1. الغاز والكهرباء والنفط Gas, Electricity & Oil
2. الخدمات الصحية Health services
3. الخدمات المالية Financial services
4. الخدمات الحكومية Governmental services
5. المواصلات Transportation
6. تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات ICT
7. الصناعات المهمة Critical Industry

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Critical Infrastructure is categorised by seven critical sectors :

1. Energy (oil, gas)
2. Telecommunications
3. Transport (road)
4. Monuments/Buildings
5. Water
6. Financial sector
7. ICT

Belgium

Belgium's National Critical Infrastructure is categorised by four critical sectors :

1. Energy (electric power, oil, gas)
2. Transport (road, rail, air, inland shipping, sea and ocean shipping & harbours)
3. Financial sector
4. Electronic Communication

Although another law applies, the Space sector is likewise treated as a Critical Infrastructure.

Brazil

[CII] Setor: representa um segmento de Infraestrutura Crítica que pode compreender subsetores.
Subsetor: é um nível de especialização de um segmento de Infraestrutura Crítica, constituído por organizações privadas ou públicas responsáveis pelos ativos de informação para os quais serão definidos controles a fim de atender requisites mínimos de segurança.

Canada

Canada's national infrastructure is categorised by ten critical sectors :

1. Health
2. Food
3. Finance
4. Water
5. Information and Communication Technology
6. Safety
7. Energy and utilities
8. Manufacturing
9. Government
10. Transportation

Chile

Chile's national critical information infrastructure is categorised by the following critical sectors: }}

1. energía (energy)
2. telecomunicaciones (telecommunications)
3. agua (water)
4. salud (health)
5. servicios financieros (financial services)
6. seguridad pública (public safety)
7. transporte (transport)
8. administración pública (civil service)
9. protección civil (civil protection)
10. defense(defence)

Congo

Condo has defined 23 critical infrastructure (sub)sectors in :

1. REGALIEN Administration publique (Government/Administration services)
2. Energie - Électricité
3. Energie - Petrole
4. Energie - Gas
5. Transports – aérien (air transport)
6. Transports – Transport guidé (passenger transport)
7. Transports – Transport par voie d’eau (transport over waterways)
8. Transports – Transport routier (road transport)
9. TRANSPORT - Organisation
10. Transport - AÉRIEN securité (Air transport (system) security)
11. Logistique
12. Banques (Banks)
13. INFRASTRUCTURES DE MARCHÉS FINANCIERS (Financial markets infrastructures)
14. Assurance
15. Social
16. SANTÉ – Établissements de soins de santé (y compris les hôpitaux et les cliniques privées)
17. SANTÉ – Produits pharmaceutiques
18. FOURNITURE ET DISTRIBUTION D’EAU POTABLE (Drinking water)
19. TRAITEMENT DES EAUX NON POTABLES (other water related services)
20. INFRASTRUCTURES NUMÉRIQUES (Cyber infrastructures)
21. Education
22. Restauration (Food)
23. AVIATION CIVILE

Croatia

Potentially eleven Critical Infrastructure Sectors have been identified by :

1. Energetika - Energy (production, including reservoirs and dams, transmission, storage, transportation fuels and energy distribution systems)
2. Komunikacijska i informacijska tehnologija - Communication and information technology (electronic communication, data transmission, information systems, providing audio and audiovisual media services)
3. Promet - Transport (road, rail, air, sea and inland waterway)
4. Zdravstvo - Public Health (health care, manufacturing, marketing and supervision of medicinal products)
5. Vodno gospodarstvo - Water Management (control and protective water structures and municipal water structures)
6. Hrana - Food (production and food supply and food safety system, stockpiles)
7. Financije - Finance (banking, stock exchanges, investment, insurance and payment systems)
8. Proizvodnja, skladištenje i prijevoz opasnih tvari - Production, storage and transport of dangerous goods (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials)
9. Javne službe - Public sector (insurance of public order, protection and rescue, emergency medical services)
10. Nacionalni spomenici i vrijednosti - National monuments and valuables
11. Science and Education

Czech Republic

Czech Republic's national critical infrastructure is categorised by nine critical sectors :

1. Energy
2. Water management
3. Food industry and agriculture
4. Health services
5. Transport
6. Communication and information systems
7. Financial market and currency
8. Emergency Services
9. Public administration

Denmark

Denmark defined critical societal functions instead of critical sectors :

1. Energy: Supply of electricity, natural gas, crude oil, fuel, etc.
2. Information and communications technology (ICT): Phone, internet, information networks, processing and transmission of data, navigation, satellite/radio/TV transmission, post and courier services, etc.
3. Transport: Carrying out, monitoring and controlling passenger and cargo transport (road, rail, air and sea), monitoring and controlling of infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, stations, airports, harbours), etc.
4. Water: Supply of drinking water and waste water disposal.
5. Food: Supply of food, supervision of food safety, monitoring and responding to contagious animal diseases and zoonoses.
6. Finance: Money transmission and transfer services, banking and insurance, securities trading, etc.
7. Fire and rescue services, police tasks, military assistance to civil authorities, etc.: # Alarming and alerting, on-scene coordinating and technical incident command, cordoning off, fire fighting, search and rescue (land/sea/air), evacuation (incl. reception, housing and catering), environmental pollution response, storm surge preparedness, snow-preparedness, public order enforcement, explosive ordnance disposal, control of production, storage and transport of hazardous materials (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive), and response to incidents that do or may involve hazardous materials.
8. Health and social services: Prehospital services, hospitals, practising physicians, production and distribution of pharmaceuticals, supervisory systems, day-care and residential institutions, home care, etc.
9. Defence, intelligence and security services: Military defence and enforcement of sovereignty, counter-terrorism, counter-extremism, counter-espionage, personal protection, etc.
10. Exercise of authority (all levels): Crisis management capacity, maintenance of parliamentary, governmental, central administrative, judicial, municipal and regional authority.

El Salvador

El Salvador's basic and essential infrastructure is categorised by four sectors :

1. Energía: presas, subestaciones, líneas de fluido eléctrico, plantas de almacenamiento de combustibles, oleoductos, gasoductos.
2. Transporte: redes viales, puentes, terminales de transporte, aeropuertos, puertos fluviales y marítimos.
3. Agua: plantas de tratamiento, acueductos, alcantarillados, canales de irrigación y conducción.
4. Comunicaciones: redes y plantas telefónicas, estaciones de radio y televisión, oficinas de correo e información publica.

Or:

1. Energy: dams, substations, electric fluid lines, fuel storage plants, oil pipelines, pipelines.
2. Transport: road networks, bridges, transport terminals, airports, river and maritime ports.
3. Water: treatment plants, aqueducts, sewage systems, irrigation canals and conduction.
4. Communications: networks and telephone plants, radio and television stations, post offices and public information.

Estonia

Estonia's critical infrastructure is categorised by nine critical sectors :

1. Energy facilities and networks: electricity, oil and gas storage facilities and refineries, transmission and distribution systems
2. Communications and information technology: telecommunications, transmission and notification systems, software, hardware and networks, including the infrastructure of the Internet
3. Finance: banking, securities and investment
4. Health care: hospitals, health care facilities, laboratories and medicines, search, rescue and ambulance services
5. Food: safety, means of production, wholesale and food industry
6. Water: water reservoirs, water treatment plants and water networks
7. Transport: airports, ports, inter-modal transport facilities, rail and mass transit networks, traffic control systems
8. Production, storage and transport of dangerous goods: chemical, biological, radiological and other hazardous materials
9. State agencies: critical services, facilities, information networks; information systems ensuring national security and defence, resources, databases and court registers with legal effect, and national cultural assets.

Finland

In 2010, Finland defined the following set of vital functions (Suomalaisen yhteiskunnan elintärkeitä toimintoja ovat) :

1. management of Government affairs (valtion johtamine)
2. international activity (kansainvälinen toiminta)
3. Finland’s defence capability (Suomen puolustuskyky)
4. internal security (sisäinen turvallisuus)
5. functioning of the economy and infrastructure (talouden ja infrastruktuurin toimivuus)
6. the population’s income security and capability to function (väestön toimeentuloturva ja toimintakyky), and
7. psychological resilience to crisis (henkinen kriisinkestävyys)

France

A critical infrastructure sector is defined as follows:

Secteur d’activités d’importance vitale (SAIV): secteur constitué d’activités concourant à un même objectif: qui ont trait à la production et la distribution de biens ou de services indispensables à la satisfaction des besoins essentiels pour la vie des populations, ou à l’exercice de l’autorité de l’État, ou au fonctionnement de l’économie, ou au maintien du potentiel de défense, ou à la sécurité de la nation, dès lors que ces activités sont difficilement substituables ou remplaçables; ou qui peuvent présenter un danger grave pour la population.

An unofficial translation follows:

Sector consists of activities contributing to the same objective: related to the production and distribution of goods or services essential to satisfy the basic needs of the population, or related to the exercise of state authority or the functioning of the economy, or the upkeep of the defence capacity, or the security of the nation since these activities are difficult to substitute or replace; or that may seriously affect the health or life of the population.

Below a list of the sectors and the responsible ministry can be found. .

Critical Sector	Responsible Ministry
Civilian activities	Ministry of Home Affairs
Legal activities	Ministry for Justice
Military activities of the State	Ministry of Defence
Food	Ministry for Agriculture
Communication, technologies and broadcasting	Ministry for Electronic communications
Energy	Ministry for Energy
Space and Research	Ministry of Research
Finance	Ministry of the Economy and Finance
Water management	Ministry for Ecology
Industry	Ministry for Industry
Health	Ministry of Health
Transport	Ministry of Transport

Germany

In Germany, the following sectors (and industries) are assigned to critical infrastructures :

1. Transport and traffic (aviation, maritime shipping, inland waterway transport, rail traffic, road traffic, logistics)
2. Energy (electricity, mineral oil, gas)
3. Information technology and telecommunication (telecommunication, information technology)
4. Finance and insurance sector (banks/financial institutes, insurance companies, financial service providers, stock exchanges)
5. State and administration (government and administration, parliament, judicial institutions, emergency and rescue services including disaster control)
6. Food (food industry, food trade)
7. Water (public water supply, public wastewater disposal)
8. Health (medical care, pharmaceuticals and vaccines, laboratories)
9. Media and culture (broadcasting (television and radio), printed and electronic press, cultural assets, highly symbolic buildings)

In Deutschland werden folgende Sektoren (und Branchen) den Kritischen Infrastrukturen zugeordnet:

1. Transport und Verkehr (Luftfahrt, Seeschifffahrt, Binnenschifffahrt, Schienenverkehr, Straßenverkehr, Logistik)
2. Energie (Elektrizität, Mineralöl, Gas)
3. Informationstechnik und Telekommunikation (Telekommunikation, Informationstechnik)
4. Finanz- und Versicherungswesen (Banken, Versicherungen, Finanzdienstleister, Börsen)
5. Staat und Verwaltung (Regierung und Verwaltung, Parlament, Justizeinrichtungen, Notfall- und Rettungswesen einschließlich Katastrophenschutz)
6. Ernährung (Ernährungswirtschaft, Lebensmittelhandel)
7. Wasser (Öffentliche Wasserversorgung, öffentliche Abwasserbeseitigung)
8. Gesundheit (Medizinische Versorgung, Arzneimittel und Impfstoffe, Labore)
9. Medien und Kultur (Rundfunk (Fernsehen und Radio), gedruckte und elektronische Presse, Kulturgut, symbolträchtige Bauwerke)

Ghana

Ghana defines the following ten sectors to be part of their Critical National Infrastructure :

1. National Defense and Security
2. Banking and Finance
3. Information and Communications
4. Energy
5. Transportation
6. Water
7. Health Services
8. Government
9. Emergency Services
10. Food and Agriculture

India

Critical sectors means sectors which are critical to the nation and whose incapacity or destruction will have a debilitating impact on national security, economy, public health or safety.

The sectors that have been designated as critical are:

1. Defence
2. Banking and financial sector
3. ICT and telecommunication
4. Transportation
5. Power
6. Energy
7. Ministry of Home Affairs
8. Ministry of External Affairs
9. Ministry of Heavy Industries
10. Niti Ayog (the erstwhile Planning Commission)

However, in 2015 the NCIIPC presented the following list of critical sectors:

1. Energy
2. Transportation (air, surface, rail & water)
3. Banking & Finance
4. Telecommunication
5. Defence
6. Space
7. Law enforcement, security & intelligence
8. Sensitive Government organisations
9. Public Health
10. Water supply
11. Critical manufacturing
12. E-Governance

Indonesia

Infrastruktur kritis nasional yakni infrastruktur pada sektor-sektor :

1. Energi (energy)
2. Transportasi (transport)
3. keuangan dan perbankan (finances and banking)
4. telekomunikasi (telecommunication)
5. pertahanan (defence)
6. penegakan hokum (law enforment)
7. keamanan dan intelijen (security and intelligence services)
8. kesehatan (health)
9. suplai air (drinking water)
10. tata kelola elektronik (e-Governance)
11. industri kritis (critical industry)
12. organisasi-orgaisasi sensitif (sensitive organisations)
13. dan luar angkasa (space)

Japan

Japan's national critical infrastructure is categorised by thirteen critical sectors: , , :

1. Information and communication services (情報通信)
2. Financial services (金融)
3. Aviation services (航空)
4. Railway services (鉄道)
5. Electric power supply services (電力)
6. Gas supply services (ガス)
7. Government and administrative services (including local public authorities)
   (政府・行政サービス（地方公共団体を含む）)
8. Medical services (医療)
9. Water services (水道)
10. Logistics services (物流)
11. Chemical industries (化学)
12. Credit card services (クレジット)
13. Petroleum industries (び「石油)

Jersey

Jersey's critical national infrastructure is categorised by the following eight critical sectors:

1. Electricity
2. Gas
3. Communications
4. Transport (including Ports and Airport)
5. Emergency services
6. Public services
7. Health
8. Water

Kuwait

Kuwait's critical national infrastructure is categorised by the following eight vital sectors: ,

1. Oil sector القطاع النفطي
2. Military sector القطاع الع�صكري
3. Energy sector and electricity and water قطاع الطاقة والكهرباء واملاء.
4. Financial sector القطاع املايل.
5. Communications, telecommunication and information technology sector قطاع االت�صاالت وتكنولوجيا املعلومات.
6. Transport sector قطاع النقل.
7. Health sector القطاع ال�صحي.
8. Other government entities .اجلهات احلكومية الأخرى.

Malaysia

Malaysia's National Critical Information Infrastructure (CNII):

1. National Defence & Security
2. Banking & Finance
3. Information & Communications
4. Energy
5. Transportation
6. Water
7. Health Services
8. Government
9. Emergency Services
10. Food & Agriculture

Moldova

Moldova recognises 11 sectors and 28 subsectors in :

Sectorul (Sector)	Subsectorul (subsector)
Energetic (Energy)	a) Activitățile de depozitare a petrolului și gazelor, inclusiv a conductelor; b) Transportul de energie electrică, gaze și petrol; c) Activitățile de distribuție a electricității, a energiei termice, gazului, petrolului
Tehnologia informației și comunicații (ICT)	a) Infrastructura rețelelor și serviciilor de comunicații electronice; b) Sisteme de prelucrare, procesare și stocare a datelor, inclusiv a serviciilor publice electronice; c) Infrastructura de securitate informatică; d) Serviciul poștal universal
Alimentare cu apă (Water supply)	a) Furnizare de apă potabilă; b) Controlul calității apei; c) Îndiguirea și controlul calităţii apei
Alimentația (food security and safety)	Asigurarea securității și siguranței alimentelor
Sănătate (Health)	a) Asistența medicală; b) Medicamente,vaccinuri, produse farmaceutice; c) Biolaboratoare și bioagenți; d) Sînge şi preparate sanguine
Financiar (Financial)	a) Servicii de plăți/structuri aferente; b) Sisteme financiare guvernamentale
Securitate (Security)	a) Apărarea țării, ordinea publică și siguranță națională; b) Managementul integrat al frontierelor
Administrație	a) Serviciile și administrația; b) Administrarea misiunilor diplomatice ale Republicii Moldova în statele străine
Transporturi (Transport)	a) Transportul auto; b) Transportul feroviar; c) Transportul aerian; d) Transportul naval
Industria chimică, biologică, nucleară (Chemical, biological and nuclear industry)	Producția, procesarea, depozitarea și utilizarea substanțelor explozibile, chimice, biologice și materialelor nucleare și radioactive
Locurile de aglomerare în masă a populației (Places of mass agglomeration of the population)	Locul de mare aglomerare a populaţiei, unde, în anumite circumstanței, pot să se află, concomitent, de la 50 persoane și mai mult

Montenegro

Za sektore KI u kojima se vrši određivanje KI prepoznati su:

Sektore

Energetika

Saobraćaj

Snabdijevanje vodom

Zdravstvo

Finansije

Elektronske komunikacije

Informaciono komunikacione tehnologije

Zaštita životne sredine

Funkcionisanje državnih organa

kao i druge oblasti od javnog interesa

Netherlands

The 2015 Critical Infrastructure review redefined the Dutch critical infrastructure sectors and the critical products and services. On September 16, 2016, some additions to the Critical Infrastructure table below were announced . Later, road and rail transport were added (again).

Critical Processes	Category	Product, service or location	Sector	Responsible Ministry
National transport and distribution of power	A	Electricity	Energy	Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Regional distribution of electricity	B
Gas production National transport and distribution of gas	A	Gas
Regional distribution of gas	B
Oil supply	A	Oil
Internet and data services	B	Internet and data services	ICT/Telecom
Internet access and data traffic	B	Internet access and data traffic
Voice services and text messaging	B	Voice services and text messaging
Geolocation and time information by GNSS	B	GNSS		Infrastructure and Water Management
Drinking water supply	A	Drinking water	Drinking water
Flood defences and water management	A	(part of) primary flood defences, regional flood defences	Water
Air Traffic	B	Air Traffic Control (ATC) and aircraft handling	Transport
Vessel Traffic Service	B	Vessel Traffic Service (Port of Rotterdam)
Transport of persons and goods by (main) railway infrastructure	B	Main rail infrastructure
Transport by (main) road infrastructure	B	Main road infrastructure (highways, key tunnels and bridges)
Large-scale production/processing and storage of chemicals and petrochemicals	B	Chemical and petrochemical industry	Chemistry
Storage, production and processing of nuclear materials	A	Nuclear	Nuclear
Retail transactions	B	Financial transactions	Financial	Finance
Consumer financial transactions	B
High-value transactions between banks	B
Securities trading	B
Emergency Services communication (1-1-2 and C2000)	B	Communication with and between emergency services through the 112 emergency number and C2000	Public Order and Safety (OOV)	Justice and Security
Police Deployment	B
Personal and organisational record databases	B	Digital government	Public Administration	The Interior and Kingdom Relations
Interconnectivity between record databases	B
Electronic messaging and information disclosure to citizens	B
Identification and authentication of citizens and organisations	B
Military deployment	B	Military deployment Armed Forces	Defence	Defence

The Netherlands' national infrastructure was (2005 definition) categorised by twelve critical sectors and 31 subsectors :

1. Energy: electric power, gas, and oil
2. Telecommunications and IT: fixed and mobile communications, radio, broadcasting, internet, and postal and courier services
3. Drinking water (supply)
4. Food: food supply, and food safety
5. Health: emergency and other hospital care, medicines, and vaccines
6. Financial services: payments (bank retail), and financial transfers by the Administration
7. Surface water: water quality and water quantity (stemming and managing)
8. Public order and safety
9. Legal order/justice: courts and detention, and law enforcement
10. Public administration: diplomacy, information services by the Administration, defence, and decision-making
11. Transport: mainport Schiphol, mainport Rotterdam, main road infrastructure, main inland shipping infrastructure, and rail infrastructure
12. Chemical and nuclear industry: transport, storage, production, and processing of dangerous materials

Each critical sector falls under the responsibility of a designated ministry.

Vitale sector: Een publiek en/of private groep organisaties en bedrijven die producten, goederen of diensten leveren en/of beheren, die als kritisch zijn benoemd voor de handhaving van de vitale belangen of vitale infrastructuur van Nederland.

North Macedonia

New Macedonia recognises five critical infrastructure sectors:

1. Energy (production, transmission and distribution)
2. Water supply
3. Environment
4. Macedonian radio and television, electronic and print media
5. National Bank of North Macedonia and other registered legal banking entities

Norway

Norway distinguishes six critical infrastructures and eleven critical societal functions. Critical infrastructures:

1. Electric Power (kraft)
2. Electronic communications (elektronisk kommunikasjon)
3. Water supply and Sewage (vann og avløp)
4. Transport (transport)
5. Oil and Gas (olje og gass)
6. Satellite-based infrastructure (satellittbasert kommunikasjon og navigasjon)

In 2006, three additional critical sectors existed, which have shifted to critical societal functions later :

1. Banking and Finance (bank og finans)
2. Monuments and symbols (kulturminner og symboler)
3. Food Supply (matforsyning)

Critical Societal Functions (Kritisk samfunnsfunksjon er det mest sentrale begrepet i definisjonsapparatet):

1. Banking and Finance (bank og finans)
2. Food Supply (matforsyning)
3. Health Services, Social Services and Social Security Benefit (helse-, sosial- og trygdetjenester)
4. Police (politi)
5. Emergency and Rescue Services (nød- og redningstjeneste)
6. Crisis Management (kriseledelse)
7. Parliament and Government (storting og regjering)
8. The Judiciary (domstolene)
9. Defence (forsvaret)
10. Environmental Surveillance (miljøovervåkning)
11. Waste Treatment (renovasjon)

Pakistan

Critical Sector

1. Government systems
2. utility infrastructure (electricity, gas, and water)
3. education
4. health
5. transport systems (air, road, rail, and sea)
6. emergency services
7. manufacturing facilities
8. banking and financial sector
9. telecommunication/ ICT sector
10. dams
11. etc.
    
    

Papua New Guinea

Critical Infrastructure at least:

1. transportation
2. communication systems
3. water supply
4. electricity supply
5. banking services
6. public institutions including health services, post offices and education services.
   

Poland

Poland distinguishes the following critical infrastructure sectors / functions:

1. Banking and financial systems (finansowe)
2. Health (ratownicze)
3. Communication and computer systems (łączności, sieci teleinformatycznych)
4. Transport (transportowe)
5. Rescue systems (ochrony zdrowia)
6. Systems ensuring functioning of the public administration (zapewniające ciągłość działania administracji publicznej)
7. Food and water provision systems (zaopatrzenia w żywność & zaopatrzenia w wodę)
8. Energy and fuel provision systems (zaopatrzenia w energię, surowce energetyczne i paliwa)
9. Systems that deal with the production, use, storage of chemical and radioactive substances, and also dangerous substance pipelines (produkcji, składowania, przechowywania i stosowania substancji chemicznych i promieniotwórczych, w tym rurociągi substancji niebezpiecznych)
10. ensuring the continuity of public administration (zapewniające ciągłość działania administracji publicznej).

Qatar

The critical sectors which comprise Qatar's national critical infrastructure include but are not restricted to  :

1. Energy, Electricity, and Water (قطاع الطاقة والكهرباء والماء)
2. Finance (القطاع الما ي ل)
3. Government (القطاع الحكومي)
4. Healthcare (قطاع الرعاية الصحية)
5. Information and Communications Technology (قطاع تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصالات)
6. Transportation (قطاع النقل والمواصلات)

Republic of Korea

Nine critical sectors comprise the Republic of Korea's national critical infrastructure :

1. Energy
2. Telecommunications
3. Transportation
4. Financials services
5. Healthcare and medical services
6. Nuclear energy
7. Environment
8. Government critical facilities
9. Water Supply

Republic of Trinidad & Tobago

The national cyber security strategy recognizes the following critical (information) infrastructure sectors :

1. Banking and financial services
2. Communications infrastructure
3. Public health
4. Public safety
5. Public transportation
6. Key infrastructure

Sierra Leone

The Critical National Information Infrastructure encompasses The Cyber Security and Crime Act 2021

1. the security, defence or international relations of Siena Leone
2. criminal law enforcement
3. communications infrastructure
4. banking and financial services
5. public utilities
6. public transportation
7. public-key infrastructure
8. public safety and essential emergency services.
   

Singapore

Singapore recognises the following eight CI sectors:

1. Energy
2. Banking and Finance
3. Healthcare
4. Transport (which includes Land, Maritime, and Aviation)
5. Government
6. Information and communication
7. Media
8. Security & Emergency Services

Slovakia

Critical infrastructure sector: part of the critical infrastructure, to be integrated into devices; sector may contain one or more sub-sectors.

Sektorom kritickej infraštruktúry časť kritickej infraštruktúry, do ktorej sa zaraďujú prvky; sektor môže obsahovať jeden alebo viac podsektorov kritickej infraštruktúry (ďalej len „podsektor“).

Slovakia recognises nine critical sectors:

1. Energy (Energetika)
2. Transport (Doprava)
3. Food (Potraviny)
4. Drinking water (Voda)
5. Health (Zdravie)
6. Financial sector (Finančný sector)
7. Information and communication (Informačné a komunikačné technológie)
8. Public Order and Internal Security (Verejný poriadok a vnútorná bezpečnosť)
9. Industry (Priemysel)

Slovenia

Sectors Critical Infrastructure of the Republic of Slovenia :

1. Energy (more than 7 days to rehabilitate; power disruption for more than 100.000 people; interruption petroleum and gas products for more than a week affecting over 100.000 people and costs in the amount of 10 M Euro/day)
2. Transportation (disable rail traffic on key routes for more than a couple of weeks and damages of 10 M Euro/day)
3. Food (unable to provide basic food products for a week for over 100.000 people)
4. Drinking water (unable to provide drinking water for a week for over 100.000 people)
5. Health / Medical care (unable to provide emergency care and public health services for over 100.000 people)
6. Finance (unable to provide money supply for more than 3 days in an area of more than 50,000 people)
7. Environmental protection (pollution with a short-term harmful effect on the population in an area of over 50,000 people)
8. Communications and Information Technologies

Spain

Spain's national infrastructure is currently categorised by twelve critical sectors:

1. Administration
2. Chemical Industry
3. Energy
4. Financial and Tax System
5. Food Supply Chain
6. Health
7. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
8. Nuclear Industry
9. Research Laboratories
10. Space
11. Transport
12. Water

Sweden

Swedens' national infrastructure is currently categorised by eleven critical sectors providing a set of critical societal functions :

1. Energy Supply
2. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
3. Financial Services
4. Social Insurances
5. Public Health, medical services and special social services
6. Protection, Security and Safety
7. Transport
8. Municipal Services
9. Food
10. Trade and Industry
11. Public Administration (governance, support functions, service sector)

Switzerland

Switzerlands' national infrastructure is currently categorised by ten critical sectors and 28 subsectors which are subcategorised very high critical, high critical and regular critical :

1. Energy: natural gas supply, oil supply, and power supply
2. Financial services: banks, and insurance companies
3. Information- & communication technologies (ICT): information technology, media, and telecommunication
4. Industry: chemical and pharmaceutical industry, and mechanical and electrical engineering industries
5. Public administration: foreign representations and headquarters of international organisations; national cultural property; parliament, government, justice, administration; research institutes
6. Public health: medical care and hospitals; laboratories
7. Public safety: armed forces, civil defense, emergency organizations (police, fire service, emergency medical service and rescue services)
8. Transport: air transport, water transport, postal services, rail transport, road transport
9. Water and food: food supply, drinking water supply
10. Waste disposal: waste, wastewater

Türkiye

Türkiye's national infrastructure is currently categorised by six critical sectors :

1. Electronic Communication (Elektronik Haberleşme)
2. Energy (Enerji)
3. Water management (Su Yönetimi)
4. Critical Public Services (Kritik Kamu Hizmetleri)
5. Transport (Ulaştırma)
6. Banking and Finance (Bankacılık ve Finans)

which contain critical infrastructures pursuant to Resolution No.2 of the Cyber Security Board dated 20/06/2013.

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates' national infrastructure is currently categorised by nine critical sectors :

1. Energy (الطاقة)
2. ICT (المعلومات الاتصالات وتقنية)
3. Government (القطاع الحكومي)
4. Electricy & Water (الكهرباء والمياه)
5. Finance & Insurance (القطاع المالي والتأمين)
6. Emergency Services (خدمات الطوارئ)
7. Health Services (الخدمات الصحية)
8. Transportation (المواصلات)
9. Food & Agriculture (الغذاء والزراعة)

United Kingdom (UK)

UK's national infrastructure was categorised into nine sectors but has been extended to 13 sectors :

1. communications (telecommunications, postal services, broadcast)
2. emergency services (ambulance, fire & rescue, marine, police)
3. energy (electricity, gas, fuel)
4. financial services (payment, clearing & settlement systems, market & exchange, public finances)
5. food (production, processing, import, distribution, retail)
6. government (central government, devolved administration/functions, regional and local government, parliament)
7. health (health & social care)
8. transport (aviation, maritime, land) and water (potable water supply, wastewater services, dams)
9. defence
10. coast guard
11. chemicals
12. civil nuclear
13. space

United States

The 2009 NIPP defines a sector as

a logical collection of assets, systems, or networks that provide a common function to the economy, government, or society.

Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21): Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience identifies 16 critical infrastructure sectors:

1. Chemical Sector
2. Commercial Facilities Sector
3. Communications Sector
4. Critical Manufacturing Sector
5. Dams Sector
6. Defense Industrial Base Sector
7. Emergency Services Sector
8. Energy Sector
9. Financial Services Sector
10. Food and Agriculture Sector
11. Government Facilities Sector
12. Healthcare and Public Health Sector
13. Information Technology Sector
14. Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste Sector
15. Transportation Systems Sector
16. Water and Wastewater Systems Sector

Each sector falls under the responsibility of a designated Sector-Specific Agency (SSA).

NIST

Critical Infrastructure Sectors:

1.  Information technology
2. Telecommunications
3. Chemical
4. Transportation systems, including mass transit, aviation, maritime, ground/surface, and rail and pipeline systems
5. Emergency services, and
6. Postal and shipping.

Vietnam

The 11 key areas (11 lĩnh vực) include : (* 12 key areas are listed)

1. transport,
2. energy,
3. natural resources and environment,
4. information,
5. health,
6. finance,
7. banking,
8. defence,
9. security,
10. social order and safety,
11. urban areas, and
12. the Government's direction and administration.

Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands defined their CI as:

1. road network,
2. schools,
3. community and emergency centres,
4. police and fire stations,
5. health facilities,
6. public administration buildings,
7. the financial centre,
8. airports and major hotels;
9. facilities and distribution systems for critical utilities including electricity, telecommunications and water as well as the sewerage system.

In addition to existing critical infrastructure, developable lands suited and air-marked for critical infrastructure must be considered.

Other Definitions

Scotland

The Scotland Act 1998 identifies those areas which are reserved and devolved. The Scottish Government fulfils the role of the Sector sponsor department (SSDI in Scotland for those sectors or sub-sectors :

1. Defense Industrial Base Sector
2. Emergency Services (with the exception of MCA Security, British Transport Police and the Security Service)
3. Food
4. Devolved Scottish Government Services
5. Health
6. Water
7. Road Transport

See also

• Critical Infrastructure
• Sector-Specific Agency (SSA)