ANNEX

Sectors | Subsectors | Categories of entities 1. Energy | (a) Electricity | — Electricity undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (57), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), which carry out the function of ‘supply’ as defined in Article 2, point (12), of that Directive — Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (29), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 — Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 — Producers as defined in Article 2, point (38), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 — Nominated electricity market operators as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) | | — Market participants as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 providing aggregation, demand response or energy storage services as defined in Article 2, points (18), (20) and (59), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 (b) District heating and cooling | — Operators of district heating or district cooling as defined in Article 2, point (19), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) (c) Oil | — Operators of oil transmission pipelines — Operators of oil production, refining and treatment facilities, storage and transmission — Central stockholding entities as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Council Directive 2009/119/EC (4) | (d) Gas | — Supply undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (5) — Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Directive 2009/73/EC — Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive 2009/73/EC — Storage system operators as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Directive 2009/73/EC — LNG system operators as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Directive 2009/73/EC — Natural gas undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive 2009/73/EC — Operators of natural gas refining and treatment facilities (e) Hydrogen | — Operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission 2. Transport | (a) Air | — Air carriers as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 used for commercial purposes — Airport managing bodies as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (6), airports as defined in Article 2, point (1), of that Directive, including the core airports listed in Section 2 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (7), and entities operating ancillary installations contained within airports — Traffic management control operators providing air traffic control (ATC) services as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (8) | (b) Rail | — Infrastructure managers as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (9) — Railway undertakings as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2012/34/EU and operators of service facilities as defined in Article 3, point (12), of that Directive | (c) Water | — Inland, sea and coastal passenger and freight water transport companies, as defined for maritime transport in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, not including the individual vessels operated by those companies | | — Managing bodies of ports as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2005/65/EC, including their port facilities as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, and entities operating works and equipment contained within ports — Operators of vessel traffic services (VTS) as defined in Article 3, point (o), of Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (10) | (d) Road | — Road authorities as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962 (11) responsible for traffic management control, excluding public entities for whom traffic-management or the operation of intelligent transport systems is a non-essential part of their general activity — Operators of Intelligent Transport Systems as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (12) | (e) public transport | — Public service operators as defined in Article 2, point (d), of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council (13) 3. Banking | | — Credit institutions as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 4. Financial market infrastructure | | — Operators of trading venues as defined in Article 4, point (24), of Directive 2014/65/EU — Central counterparties (CCPs) as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 5. Health | | — Healthcare providers as defined in Article 3, point (g), of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (14) — EU reference laboratories as referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council (15) — Entities carrying out research and development activities of medicinal products as defined in Article 1, point (2), of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (16) | | — Entities manufacturing basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations as referred to in Section C division 21 of NACE Rev. 2 — Entities manufacturing medical devices considered as critical during a public health emergency (‘public health emergency critical devices list’) within the meaning of Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2022/123 of the European Parliament and of the Council (17) — Entities holding a distribution authorisation as referred to in Article 79 of Directive 2001/83/EC 6. Drinking water | | — Suppliers and distributors of water intended for human consumption as defined in Article 2, point (1)(a), of Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council (18), excluding distributors for which distribution of water for human consumption is a non-essential part of their general activity of distributing other commodities and goods 7. Waste water | | — Undertakings collecting, disposing of or treating urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water as defined in Article 2, points (1), (2) and (3), of Council Directive 91/271/EEC (19), excluding undertakings for which collecting, disposing of or treating urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water is a non-essential part of their general activity 8. Digital infrastructure | | — Providers of internet exchange points as defined in Article 6, point (18), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 — DNS service providers as defined in Article 6, point (20), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555, excluding operators of root name servers — top-level-domain name registries as defined in Article 6, point (21), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 — Providers of cloud computing services as defined in Article 6, point (30), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 — Providers of data centre services as defined in Article 6, point (31), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 | | — Providers of content delivery networks as defined in Article 6, point (32), of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 — Trust service providers as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (20) — Providers of public electronic communications networks as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council (21) — Providers of electronic communications services as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 insofar as their services are publicly available 9. Public administration | | — Public administration entities of central governments as defined by Member States in accordance with national law 10. Space | | — Operators of ground-based infrastructure, owned, managed and operated by Member States or by private parties, that support the provision of space-based services, excluding providers of public electronic communications networks as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 11. Production, processing and distribution of food | | — Food businesses as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (22) which are engaged exclusively in logistics and wholesale distribution and large scale industrial production and processing

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