CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY BELGIUM 2.0 – 2021-2025 authorities in Belgium are each responsible for the identification, standardization and inspections of Operators of Essential Services in their sector. The CCB and National Crisis Centre have an important advisory role in this. The NIS Act identifies six different sectors for Operators of Essential Services — Energy, Transportation, Finance, Digital Infrastructure, Healthcare, and Drinking Water — alongside digital services such as cloud computing services, online search engines, and online marketplaces. 4.11 The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) monitors the security of the electronic communications networks and services of telecom operators. For example, BIPT monitors operators’ compliance with both legislation (e.g. risk analyses and related security measures) and its decisions, handles security incident reports (including incidents that constitute a personal data breach, in conjunction with the Data Protection Authority, APD-GBA), and has various powers to do its job (including issuing binding instructions to an operator). It also has a Crisis Response Team in case of the aforementioned incidents. BIPT is also the sectoral authority and inspection service for the digital infrastructure sector (Internet Exchange Points, providers of DNS services and registries of top-level domain names) under the NIS Act and for the electronic communications and digital infrastructure sectors under the “Critical Infrastructures” Act. Furthermore, BIPT is in charge of monitoring the application of the legal provisions transposing the Radio Equipment Directive, or RED (2014/53/ EU), concerning products containing a radio functionality. 4.12 Federal Public Service Economy The Federal Public Service Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy has the task of creating the conditions for a competitive, sustainable and balanced functioning of the goods and services market in Belgium. Given the increasing digitalization of our society and businesses, the FPS Economy is involved in several areas of cybersecurity. It is the relevant administration for the identification, standardization and 40