Lithuania: regulatory patchwork that evolved in response to external threats, legal approximation and domestic influences
ENThe current system regulating the protection of the critical infrastructure is an outcome of incremental changes related to two subsystems: first, the evolving regulation of the activities and transactions of economic entities considered important for the country’s national security and, secondly, more recently, the evolution of critical information infrastructure regulation towards an explicitly defined concept of critical infrastructure. It is the latter that provides the definition of critical infrastructure, the criteria used for assigning particular objects the status of critical infrastructure and the institutional responsibilities for protecting it.1 The object of critical infrastructure is an institution or its unit, an enterprise, particular equipment, its properties or components, planned, built or already functioning, irrespective of whether private or state owned, which provides services of special importance, the unavailability or interruption of which would cause serious harm to the national security, economy, interests of state and society.
