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protecting the sovereignty and defence capabilities of a state, preventing armed conflict and repelling
armed aggression;
11) cyberspace – an environment (virtual space) that provides opportunities for communication
and/or the realisation of social relations, resulting from the operation of shared (interconnected)
communication systems and the provision of electronic communications using the Internet and/or
other global data transmission networks;
12) cyber intelligence – actions carried out by intelligence agencies in cyberspace or with its use;
13) cyberterrorism – terrorist activity carried out in cyberspace or with its use;
14) cyberespionage – espionage that takes place in cyberspace or with its use;
15) critical information infrastructure – a set of critical information infrastructure facilities;
16) critical infrastructure facilities (hereinafter referred to as critical infrastructure facilities) –
enterprises, institutions and organisations, regardless of their form of ownership, whose activities are
directly related to technological processes and/or the provision of services that are important for the
economy and industry, the functioning of society and public safety, whose failure or malfunction could
have a negative impact on the national security and defence of Ukraine, the environment, cause
property damage and/or pose a threat to human life and health;
17) National Telecommunication Network – a set of special telecommunication systems
(networks), special communication systems, other communication systems that are used in the
interests of government authorities and local governments, law enforcement agencies and military
formations formed under the law, designed for the circulation (transmission, reception, creation,
processing, storage) and protection of national information resources, and that are used to provide
secure electronic communications, provision of a range of modern secure information and
communication (multi-service) services in the interests of the administration of the state in peacetime,
in a state of emergency and a special period, and which is a dual-use network (system) using part of its
resource to provide services, in particular, cyber defence, to other consumers;
18) national electronic information resources (hereinafter referred to as national information
resources) – systematised electronic information resources that contain information regardless of the
type, content, form, time and place of its creation (including public information, state information
resources and other information), designed to meet the vital public needs of a citizen, person, society
and state. Electronic information resources are defined as any information created, recorded, processed
or stored in digital or another intangible form by electronic, magnetic, electromagnetic, optical,
technical, software or other means;
19) critical information infrastructure facility is communication or technological system of a
critical infrastructure facility, a cyberattack on which would directly affect the sustainable operation of
such critical infrastructure facility;
20) technological process control system (hereinafter referred to as technological system) – an
automated or automatic system, which is a set of equipment, means, complexes and systems of
processing, transmission and acceptance, designed for organisational management and/or control of
technological processes (including industrial, electronic, communication equipment, other technical
and technological means) regardless of the system access to the Internet and/or other global data
transmission networks;
21) electronic communication systems (hereinafter – communication systems) – transmission,
switching or routing systems, equipment and other resources (including passive network elements
which enable the transmission of signals by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic means,
mobile, satellite networks, electric cable networks as far as they are used for the transmission of
signals), which ensure electronic communications (transmission of electronic information resources),
including communication means and devices, computers, other computer equipment, information and
telecommunication systems, which have access to the internet and/or other global data transmission
networks.
The terms “national security”, “national interests”, “threats to national security” are used in this
Law in the meaning defined by the Law of Ukraine “On the Fundamentals of National Security of
Ukraine”.
Article 2. Principles of application of the Law
1. This Law does not apply to:
1) relations and services related to the content of information that is processed (transmitted,
stored) in communication and/or technological systems;
2) actions related to the protection of information constituting a state secret, communication and
technological systems intended for its processing;
3) social networks, private electronic information resources on the Internet (including blogging
platforms, video hosting, other web resources), if such information resources do not contain
information the need to protect which is established by law, relations and services related to the
operation of such networks and resources;
4) communication systems that do not interact with public electronic communication networks
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