Skr. 2016/17:213 authorities on the security of network and information systems for certain services in designated sectors. The designated sectors are energy, transport, banking, financial market infrastructures, health, drinking water supply and distribution, and digital infrastructure. The competent authorities shall monitor the application of the NIS Directive at national level. In March 2016, the Government commissioned a Public Inquiry to propose how the NIS Directive is to be implemented in Swedish law (Ju 2016:11). The inquiry’s findings were recently presented through the report Informationssäkerhet för samhällsviktiga och digitala tjänster [Cyber security for essential and digital services] (SOU 2017:36). The Public Inquiry’s proposals include how to implement the Directive’s requirements for designating authorities with responsibility for certain functions, with a focus on assigning MSB a coordinating role in the area but that other authorities be given responsibility for supervision within the various sectors. The Public Inquiry further proposed how the identification of operators covered by the Directive, and the requirements on them, can be implemented in one comprehensive regulatory framework, taking into account existing provisions, sector responsibility and what is most effective on the basis of different perspectives. The Government will work to    2.2 ensure that the protective security legislation more effectively meets the changing demands on protective security in the area of cyber security, in part through an adequate system of sanctions and an effective supervision, ensure the effective implementation of the NIS Directive and to establish an adequate steering and supervision of the security of network and information systems in critical infrastructure for certain operators within the designated sectors, monitor the need for further measures to develop the supervision of cyber security throughout society. Enhancing network, product and system security Secure infrastructure for electronic communications Objectives:  Electronic communications are to be effective, secure and robust and are to meet the needs of their users.  Electronic communications in Sweden are to be available independent of functions outside the country’s borders.  The supervisory authority’s need for being able to take adequate measures is to be met. Private individuals, central government authorities, municipalities, county councils, companies and other organisations are today dependent on reliable electronic communications services that function in all conditions. Electronic communications with high operational reliability and strong protection are also of very high importance to the functioning and security of society and to the ability to manage various crises. Critical infrastructure relating to public order, safety, health and defence are in particularly great need of security and robustness. Operators of electronic communications are a heterogeneous group that currently work in a competitive market. Some of them own their networks, while others rent the networks of other operators. Ownership structures can vary from major publicly listed companies to urban networks and village cooperatives. This in itself means that the stakeholders have different conditions for preventing and managing incidents and serious events. 12