Activities / Who the operator is
Runs an essential service
operates_essential_service
Your app supports infrastructure a government has designated essential, such as energy, water, transport, or health delivery.
- scope role
- in the registry since 1.0
- 185 laws in 88 jurisdictions name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It is an essential or important entity under NIS2 or a transposition, or a designated critical-infrastructure operator (energy, transport, banking, health, water, digital infrastructure).
This covers a utility's outage-reporting app, a hospital scheduling system, and a transit operator's ticketing platform.
What does not
A general productivity app a utility happens to use for internal memos does not count on its own.
Often confused with Provides telecom services.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
| Area of law | Laws | Jurisdictions |
|---|---|---|
|
Cybersecurity law
Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline. |
161 | 68 |
|
Privacy law
Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach. |
22 | 21 |
|
AI law
Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk. |
2 | 2 |
In a declaration
A role says who operates a product, so it is declared in the product's
own lexlint.yml and never in a component's
ACTIVITIES.md: a library cannot make the product that uses
it a regulated party.
In lexlint.yml
History
In the registry since version 1.0, .
In the glossary: Runs an essential service.
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