Risk and infrastructure. Critical actors' perspective

The CER directive of the European Union on the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) seems to offer some useful indications on the subject of the administrative management of the risk, with a view to overcoming the emergency paradigm. This is a directive whose objective is to respond to the need, also prioritised in the European Union's agenda, to ensure the security of infrastructures in order to improve their ability to prevent, withstand and recover from significant disruptions. A directive that radically changes the approach adopted with regard to infrastructures, shifting the focus from the structure to the entity that manages it, so as to implement the capacity of operators to strengthen their ability to prevent, protect, respond, mitigate, absorb adapt and restore their operational capabilities following incidents that may disrupt the provision of essential services, in order to define a general regulatory framework to address the resilience of critical actors to all risks, natural and man-made, accidental and intentional, overcoming the peculiarities and gaps of specific sectoral disciplines. Starting from this assumption, we must rethink the paradigm of the approach starting from an inversion that requires us to reflect on the objective fact of the risk and not on who is in charge of managing it, with all the implications that this entails.