LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of July 10, 2025 No. 223

About identification, appointment and protection of national critical infrastructure

The Parliament adopts this organic law.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Regulation subject

(1) This law establishes the legal basis for identification and purpose of national critical infrastructure, and also for assessment of need of improvement of its protection for the purpose of increase in capability to ensure stability, safety and reliability of social and economic systems and protection of people.

(2) Protection of national critical infrastructure (further – NKI) is component of homeland security.

Article 2. Scope of application

Provisions of this law are applied to all legal entities of public or private law performing activities and providing the main services in the sectors and splits of national critical infrastructure provided in appendix 1.

Article 3. Basic concepts

For the purpose of this law the following concepts mean:

1) responsible body of the public power – body of the public power / the public organization appointed according to this law which within the powers and obligations established by the law are responsible for the organization and implementation of activities in the areas corresponding to the sectors and splits of NKI provided in appendix 1, and under which authority at least one appointed NKI is;

2) risks assessment – complex process by means of which nature and scales of risk by identification and the analysis of potential hazards, weak spots and relevant dangers which can lead to incident, violation or destruction of NKI is determined;

3) the vital functions of the state – the processes making the prevailing impact on functioning of the state and which interruption threatens life or human health or causes significant damage to economy, the environment, public order and homeland security;

4) the managing director of national critical infrastructure – the owner, the operator or the administrator of national critical infrastructure irrespective of type of property and form of business, responsible for national critical infrastructure;

5) information carried to the state secret – information concerning NKI which belongs to the state secret according to the Law on the state secret No. 245/2008;

6) sensitive information on protection of critical infrastructure – information on NKI which in case of disclosure can be used for planning and implementation of the actions capable to entail violation or destruction of certain objects of NKI. Sensitive information on protection of critical infrastructure also other information, except carried to the state secret is considered;

7) national critical infrastructure – asset, installation, the equipment, network or system, or component of such asset, installation, the equipment, network or system which are necessary for provision of the main service;

8) the plan of safety – the planning document of strategic level having the operational nature in connection with the accompanying procedures developed for each appointed NKI, intended for risk management at the level of NKI, and determining the purpose, tasks, requirements and security measures of NKI;

9) critical threshold values – the extreme values established depending on weight of impact, violation or destruction of infrastructure, and determining its identification as NKI;

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