Critical Entities Resilience

Critical Entities Resilience (CER) 

The Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive (EU) 2022/2557 requires essential services to withstand and recover from major physical disruptions. It was transposed into Irish law through Statutory Instrument (S.I.) 559 of 2024, effective from October 2024. The Office of Emergency Planning acts as the National Single Point of Contact, with sector specific competent authorities designated in line with the regulations. 

CER applies to designated operators and infrastructure owners, including rail operators and infrastructure managers, identified through a risk-based National Risk Assessment process. The framework complements NIS2 by addressing physical and operational resilience alongside cyber resilience, supporting an integrated, all hazards approach to the protection of essential services.  

Compliance focuses on ensuring that infrastructure and operations can prevent, protect against, respond to, resist, mitigate, absorb, accommodate, and recover from disruptive incidents, thereby safeguarding essential services and human life.