What is it objects of Critical Infrastructure

Objects of critical infrastructure are strategically important enterprises and institutions necessary for the functioning of the country's society and economy. Their unplanned shutdown, decommissioning, or destruction can pose a threat to state security, and the natural environment, cause deterioration of defense capability, material and financial losses, or even lead to human casualties.

What Are Objects of Critical Infrastructure?

In Ukraine, this type of assets includes enterprises and institutions of various ownership types operating in the following industries:

• • energy;
  • chemical;
  • food;
  • transport;
  • financial and banking;
  • information technology and telecommunications;
  • communal economy: water, heat, gas supply;
  • health care, etc.

The procedure for recognizing an object as a critical infrastructure is established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and, as of 2023, is regulated by Resolution No. 1109. Decisions regarding such recognition are made by sectoral bodies – state bodies that are responsible for protecting sectors or subsectors of critical infrastructure.

What Entities Are Considered as Sectoral Bodies?

Resolution No. 1109 defines the list of sectoral bodies, which in particular includes:

• • SSSCIP;
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs;
  • Ministry of Economy;
  • Ministry of Energy;
  • Ministry of Infrastructure;
  • Ministry of Defense;
  • Ministry of Figures;
  • Ministry of Finance;
  • Ministry of Health;
  • National Bank;
  • NSSU;
  • SSU.

All of them are responsible for separate sectors, and sub-sectors of basic services of critical state infrastructure facilities, the types of which are also listed.

What Are the Categories of the Criticality of Objects of Critical Infrastructure?

Resolution No. 1109 divides such enterprises and institutions into four categories of criticality:

1. 1. I – objects that are of high importance for the state and can significantly influence other objects of critical infrastructure. If their work is disrupted, a crisis of state importance will arise.
   2. II – vitally important facilities and the termination or disruption of their work will cause a crisis of regional importance.
   3. III – important objects, the disruption or termination of which will cause a crisis of local importance.
   4. IV – necessary facilities, the violation or termination of which will cause a crisis of local importance.

Learn more from the article by SmartTender lawyer Yan Tomashuk: "Critical infrastructure objects: detailed analysis and answers to common questions".

Which Purchases Are Allowed to Be Carried Out to Ensure the Functioning of Critical Infrastructure Facilities?

During martial law in Ukraine, the legislation allows for the procurement of goods, services, and works for the needs of such objects without using the public procurement system. But at the wish of the organizer, online auctions can still be held on an electronic trading platform, which will allow them to receive the most favorable price offer from the supplier.