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Cooperation with the Business Sector

Cooperation with the business sector is key to ensuring comprehensive CI protection. Establishing clear principles and procedures with CI facility owners, operators, and managers is essential, as much of the CI crucial to national security is privately owned.

The cooperation between the public and private sectors involves:

  • Information sharing,
  • Creating alert channels for state service notifications,
  • Protecting confidential business data received from CI operators.
  • A core element of public-private cooperation is the Public-Private Forum, which addresses CI protection issues.

The Forum’s objectives are to:

  • Provide a platform for opinion exchange and work on sensitive CI protection issues,
  • Suggest and develop new legal solutions for CI protection,
  • Facilitate stakeholder input early in legislative processes for CI,
  • Organize workshops, seminars, and conferences on CI protection,
  • Develop a CI specialist database for key areas such as finance, communication, IT networks, energy, and fuel supply.

The Forum’s efforts include a CI protection mechanism, aiming to:

  • Ensure information exchange between public and private sectors on CI threats,
  • Support action coordination in CI damage or disruption cases,
  • Provide public administration support (advisory, training) on physical and IT security of CI facilities,
  • Engage in CI protection exercises.

The CI specialist database facilitates consultations, and draws on private sector expertise, particularly valuable in EU discussions on CI legislation proposals. Public administration is responsible for organizing and running the protection mechanism, coordinated by the Government Centre for Security, which maintains operational contacts with designated CI contact points (e.g., ministries, central offices, Police Headquarters, Internal Security Agency, Intelligence Agency, Border Guard, and State Fire Service).

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