European Public-Private Partnership for Resilience

The European Commission together with ENISA is currently establishing a European Public-Private Partnership for Resilience (EP3R).

EP3R aims to provide a flexible European-wide governance framework to involve relevant public and private stakeholders in public policy and strategic decision making discussions to strengthen security and resilience in the context of Critical Information Infrastructure Protection. EP3R focuses on prevention and preparedness matters with a European dimension and in view of a global outreach. EP3R objectives, principles and proposed structure are described in the non paper on the establishment of EP3R devised in June 2010 (available here).

A bottom-up approach is proposed, seeking the active contribution of relevant public and private stakeholders to ensure that EP3R would address their actual needs and priorities.

In this context, three Working Groups have been established to discuss key issues and propose recommendations, respectively in the field of:

1. Key assets, resources and functions for the continuous and secure provisioning of electronic communications across countries;
2. Baseline requirements for the security and resilience of electronic communications;
3. Coordination and cooperation needs and mechanisms to prepare for and respond to large-scale disruptions affecting electronic communications.

Please find attached the relevant Terms of Reference (ToR) for each Working Group as distributed end of December 2010.

We would highly appreciate, if you could indicate to us whether you would be ready to contribute to a Working Group and as an initial basis for contribution if you could provide us with written input on the draft Terms of Reference of the area of interest for you and on future steps you would envisage for the Working Group. The Working Groups are currently being formed on the basis of contributions received on the draft ToRs and future steps since January 2011.

Please send your written comments to Lionel Dupré as soon as possible.

For your information we are tentatively scheduling a meeting of the EP3R Working Groups on the 16th of March 2011 possibly until 17th morning.

Contact:

Lionel Dupré
Security and Resilience of Communication Networks Officer
European Network & Information Security Agency (ENISA)
P.O. Box 1309, 71001 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
e-mail: lionel.dupre@enisa.europa.eu
Tel: +30 2810 391287
fax: +30 2810 391895