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1. For the purposes of this Directive, the following entities shall be considered to be essential entities: entities of a type referred to in Annex I which exceed the ceilings for medium-sized enterprises provided for in Article 2(1) of the Annex to Recommendation 2003/361/EC; qualified trust service providers and top-level domain name registries as well as DNS service providers, regardless of their size; providers of public electronic communications networks or of publicly available electronic communications services which qualify as medium-sized enterprises under Article 2 of the Annex to Recommendation 2003/361/EC; public administration entities referred to in Article 2(2), point (f)(i); any other entities of a type referred to in Annex I or II that are identified by a Member State as essential entities pursuant to Article 2(2), points (b) to (e); entities identified as critical entities under Directive (EU) 2022/2557, referred to in Article 2(3) of this Directive; if the Member State so provides, entities which that Member State identified before 16 January 2023 as operators of essential services in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/1148 or national law.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-27 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.