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Critical Infrastructure Systems

Critical infrastructure includes systems such as:

  • Energy, energy raw materials, and fuel supply,
  • Communications,
  • IT networks,
  • Financial systems,
  • Food supply,
  • Water supply,
  • Healthcare,
  • Transport,
  • Emergency services,
  • Public administration continuity,
  • Production, storage, and handling of chemical and radioactive substances, including hazardous substance pipelines.

Critical infrastructure plays a vital role in the functioning of the state and its citizens' lives. Natural disasters or human activities can damage or disrupt CI, endangering lives and property, and harming economic development. Protecting CI is thus a priority for the Polish state, focusing not only on threat prevention but also on minimizing the duration, impact, and losses from any disruptions to CI operations.

Critical infrastructure protection encompasses all activities aimed at ensuring the functionality, continuity, and integrity of CI, preventing risks and vulnerabilities, limiting their effects, and restoring CI promptly in case of failures, attacks, or other disruptions.

A key aspect of crisis management for CI protection is cooperation among public administration units, focusing on improving security conditions. Collaboration with the business sector is also essential, aiming to establish transparent principles and procedures with CI owners, operators, and managers. This is particularly relevant as much of CI, vital to state security, is now privately owned.

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