Article 3Essential and important entities

1. For the purposes of this Directive, the following entities shall be considered to be essential entities:

(a)

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;

(b)

qualified trust service providers and top-level domain name registries as well as DNS service providers, regardless of their size;

(c)

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;

(d)

public administration entities referred to in Article 2(2), point (f)(i);

(e)

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);

(f)

entities identified as critical entities under Directive (EU) 2022/2557, referred to in Article 2(3) of this Directive;

(g)

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