National Cybersecurity Strategy NIS national competent Authority Authority in charge of implementing the NIS Decree, supervising its application, and exercising the related inspection and sanctioning powers. Following the changes introduced to the NIS Decree by the Law Decree no. 82/2021 (Article 15, paragraph 1, letter g), the ACN is designated as the competent NIS National Authority for the sectors and subsectors referred to in Annex II and for the services referred to in Annex III of the NIS Decree. NIS Point of Contact (PoC) Following the changes introduced to the NIS Decree by the Law Decree no. 82/2021 (article 15, paragraph 1, letter g), the ACN is designated as the NIS single point of contact. The PoC performs a liaison function to ensure cross-border cooperation of the NIS competent national authority with the competent authorities of other Member States, as well as with the NIS Cooperation Group – established at the EU Commission – and the CSIRT Network. NIS sectorial Authorities Following the changes introduced to the NIS Decree by the Law Decree no. 82/2021 (Article 15, paragraph 1, letter g), the NIS sectorial authorities are: the Ministry of Economic Development, for the digital infrastructure sector; IXP, DNS, TLD subsectors, as well as for digital services; the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, for the transport sector; air, rail, water and road subsectors; the Ministry of Economy and Finance, for the banking sector and for the financial markets infrastructures sector, in collaboration with the sectorial supervisory authorities, the Bank of Italy and Consob, according to methods of collaboration and information-sharing established by Decree of the Minister of Economy and Finance; the Ministry of Health, for health care activities, provided by operators employed or appointed by the same Ministry or affiliated with it, and the Regions and autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano, directly or through the healthcare Authorities territorially competent for health assistance activities provided by operators authorized and accredited by the Regions or autonomous Provinces in the territorial areas of their respective competence; the Ministry of Ecological Transition for the energy sector; electricity, gas, and oil subsectors; the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Regions and autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano, directly or through the territorially competent Authorities, regarding the supply and distribution of drinking water sector. 46