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Critical Infrastructure Protection from a National Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Stefan Brem
Stefan Brem*
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Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP
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Abstract

This article addresses conceptional components of national strategies on critical infrastructure protection (CIP). In particular, it focuses on the Swiss CIP programme and its strategic components. As in other countries, Switzerland divides its national infrastructure into critical sectors, but rather distinctively it subdivides them into critical subsectors and even lists specific critical infrastructure objects in a classified inventory. The article stresses the importance of a pragmatic public private partnership in further strengthening the CI's resiliency, but also argues for a more explicit legal foundation to provide some clearer guidelines in this evolving field of collaboration.

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Symposium on Critical Infrastructures: Risk, Responsibility and Liability
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 191 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015

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27 Between the basic strategy of 2009 and the national CIP strategy of 2012, the ten critical sectors have been slightly rearranged and the original 31 subsectors streamlined to 28. This redefinition has been elaborated by the interagency CIP working group and approved by the Federal Council.

28 Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz, Methode zur Erstellung des SKI-Inventars (2010), p. 13.

29 Real Ley, 8/2011, April 28, 2011; Real Decreto, 704/2011, May 20, 2011.

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