Recital 34

(34) As part of crisis preparedness, this Regulation should allow for anticipation of events and crises for which it would be possible to carry out stress tests and simulations, building on ongoing analysis concerning critically important sectors of the internal market economy and the Union’s continuous foresight work. In particular, the Commission should develop scenarios and parameters in specific sectors that capture the particular risks associated with a crisis. In order to ensure the crisis preparedness of all actors, it is necessary to set out rules on stress tests, which should be conducted at least every two years. In this context, the Commission should facilitate and encourage the development of strategies for emergency preparedness, including strategies for crisis communication and exchanging information about applicable restrictions in challenging circumstances. The identification of the specific focus sectors should be based on existing indicator-based tools which monitor the development of supply chains in the Union with a view to identifying potential distress, taking into account relevant specific criteria such as trade flows, demand and supply, concentration of supply, Union and global production and production capacities at different stages of the value chain and the interdependencies between economic operators.

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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.