Critical Infrastructures

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

• Waste water disposal

  • Urban drainage
  • Waste water treatment and water discharge
  • Control and monitoring

• Drinking water supply

  • Water production
  • Treatment
  • Distribution
  • Control and monitoring

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 2 of the BSI Kritis Regulation for the Water sector.
Anlagenkategorien und Schwellenwerte im Sektor Wasser

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.