Security and defense-related infrastructure projects, such as the construction or expansion of military facilities, logistics or armament sites, but also the expansion of critical infrastructure such as transport networks, communications networks, energy supply facilities, or health care facilities such as hospitals, are subject to specific planning, licensing, regulatory, and other public law requirements.
Critical infrastructure facilities must be built to be resilient and reinforced to protect them against terrorist attacks, sabotage, human error, and natural disasters. An umbrella law on critical infrastructure (KRITIS) to implement the European CER Directive on the resilience of critical facilities could not be passed in time before the end of the legislative period. However, the new federal government is required to adopt the relevant legal provisions as quickly as possible in order to create uniform security standards for all operators of critical infrastructure, including in the energy, transport, finance and insurance, health, hospitals, drinking water, wastewater, waste disposal, information technology and telecommunications, food, space and public administration sectors. KRITIS operators will in future be subject to extensive protective measures and reporting obligations in line with an “all-hazards approach.”
We support our clients in all matters relating to licensing and planning law and ensure that compliance with the KRITIS requirements that will apply in future can be guaranteed in good time.
