Article 3: Essential and important entities
NIS2 Art. 3, Chapter I
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, regardles
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In relation to financial entities identified as essential or important entities pursuant to national rules transposing Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2022/2555, this Regulation shall be considered a sector-specific Union legal act for the purposes of Article 4 of that Directive.
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competences: (a) EBA, ESMA or EIOPA; (b) the ECB, in the case of financial entities referred to in Article 2(1), points (a), (b) and (d); (c) the competent authorities, single points of contact or CSIRTs designated or established in accordance with Directive (EU) 2022/2555; (d) the resolution authorities, as referred to in Article 3 of Directive 2014/59/EU, and the Single Resolution Board (SRB) with respect to entities referred to in Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Cou
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