Critical services

Because of their special importance for the functioning of society, critical services within the Health sector of Section 10 (1) Sent. 1 of the BSI-Act are:

• Inpatient medical care

  • Admission
  • Diagnosis
  • Therapy
  • Accommodation/care
  • Discharge

• Supply of directly life-sustaining medical devices that are consumables

  • Manufacture
  • Dispensing

• Supply of prescription medicinal products and blood and plasma concentrates for use in or on the human body

  • Manufacture
  • Sales
  • Dispensing

• Laboratory diagnostics

  • Transport
  • Analytics

Facilities-Categories and Thresholds

Whether a facility is to be identified as a Critical Infrastructure is dependent on thresholds derived on the basis of criticality of supply, as tabulated in Part 3 of Appendix 5 of the BSI Kritis Regulation for the Health sector.
Anlagenkategorien und Schwellenwerte im Sektor Gesundheit

Operators are to perform this threshold-based identification for their respective facilities until March 31 each year, based on data for the preceding year. Exceeding the threshold then entails identification of the corresponding facility as a Critical Infrastructure, which needs to be immediately registered with our KRITIS-Büro.