Official Journal Improving national and international cooperation with strategic partners in the cybersecurity field. 4. Policy goal 1. Ensuring cybersecurity at the national level through the protection of information infrastructure and strengthening technological and legal tools. The rapid developments across the sectors of the economy, heavily based on technological innovation as well, makes it difficult for decision-makers to understand and mitigate risks related to the use of information and communication technology. These risks are a common global responsibility and include national and international perspectives. Domestically, the common responsibility included the industry, and the administration, and the citizens. Development and implementation of policies and tools to establish a safe communication space, is the most valuable component for cybersecurity incident management and secure electronic transactions in the domestic market, intending to guarantee safe electronic interaction between public authorities, citizens, and businesses, thus improving the effectiveness of online public and private services, and electronic business and commerce. The digital space is sensitive: information systems and networks may be impacted by security incidents, such as human error, natural causes, technical faults, or attacks. These situations are increasing in number and are becoming ever more complex and may lead to great financial losses and impact the wellbeing of the society overall. Establishing trust in the online environment is the key to economic and social development. Lack of trust, especially because of the perceived lack of cybersecurity leads consumers to hesitate in using electronic transactions. Specific objective 1: Improving the legal framework providing norms and regulating cybersecurity in the country and aligning this framework with European Union directives and regulation. Security authorities in the country have developed the legal basis for their activity. Page|1492 Year 2021 - Issue 7 However, even though even though laws, secondary legislation, regulations, and standards have been developed, the analysis conducted and the evaluation of the cybersecurity maturity level in the country, found the need to revise the entire legal and regulatory framework achieve complete alignment with European Union directives, and to achieve domestic institutional coordination. This specific objective aims at harmonizing the Albanian legislation on cybersecurity with the EU legislation. Besides, a national procedure will be developed for action in case of extraordinary situations created by cyber crises. Sub Objectives: Improving cybersecurity regulatory framework in line with sector laws, to appropriately address and resolve issues including, but not limited to IoT, 5G technology, artificial intelligence. Continuously adapting standards and rules to the developments of the cybersecurity field. Meeting engagements undertaken regarding cyberspace as a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Defining a national procedure for extraordinary situations created by cyber crises, taking concrete measures to resolve the situation in real-time. Specific objective 2: Establishing and operation of CSIRTs in all industry sectors nationally According to the law “On cybersecurity” and the obligations provided therein, and to guarantee information and communication system security, there is an obligation to dynamically identify critical and important information infrastructure and then establish incident response teams (CSIRT). Currently, the initial measures for the establishment of these teams in some of the infrastructure defined by a relevant decision have been taken, but this is a continuous process monitored by NECCA. Achievement of this policy 1 objective will be measured with the number of established CSIRTs. All critical and important information infrastructure operators should have their relevant CSIRT, which should meet minimum requirements and be audited by NECCA.