Transport – significant critical infrastructure sector

The paper is dealing with actual situation in protection of critical infrastructure in transportation sector in the Slovak Republic. It informs about the European Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiatives and strategic documents solving critical infrastructure in the SR. Subsequently it describes elements of critical infrastructure in all transport subsectors, ways of their protection and future tasks that should be realized to reduce the risks threatening the stability of critical infrastructure as well as to avert attacks on these elements. It also emphasizes the importance of legislative framework on national and international level.

TRANSPORT – A SIGNIFICANT SECTOR OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE The article deals with the current situation in the protection of critical infrastructure in the transport sector in the Slovak Republic. It provides information on activities related to the protection of critical infrastructure at the European Union level and strategic documents that address the issue of critical infrastructure in the Slovak Republic. It further describes the elements of critical infrastructure in all transport subsectors, the possibilities of their protection, and other tasks necessary to reduce the risks threatening the stability of critical infrastructure as well as to avert attacks on its elements. The paper also emphasizes the importance of the legislative framework at the national and international level.
1. INTRODUCTION
The questions of critical infrastructure protection started to be emphasized especially after tragic events of 11 September 2001 in the USA when the vulnerability of the critical infrastructure elements was confirmed and the first sophisticated measures for increasing the level of its protection were formulated. The reason is formation of super – terrorism as new dimension of terrorism against a background of “battle of civilizations” [4]. (…)

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