The national infrastructure system, through its development, technical performance and security level characteristics, creates the real premises for the manifestation of vulnerability and risk factors which cause serious disturbances with major implications in the social, economic, national and micro-regional plans.
The negative effects of the poor technical conditions of the specia-lized transport infrastructure have seriously influenced operation times and have caused less efficient activities, with direct impact on the supply of competitive services and high quality and safety standards. Under the circumstances, coordinating the activity of institutions with private activities is growing in importance. The implication of all factors (public and private) has the role of encouraging the participation to the implementation of the critical infrastructure protection measure, identifying solutions for eliminating the existing legislative and operating gaps, creating a coherent system for identifying and protecting national and European critical infrastructures, introducing an integrated protection programme and facilitating information exchange.
“PPP projects using a coherent implementation method bring concrete benefits. The legislative framework for the critical infrastructure protection and public-private partnership in the area was adopted in Romania: an emergency ordinance was passed in 2010 which in 2011 became the law on identifying, naming and protecting critical infrastructures.
The information flow and good practice exchange are the best method for creating a safe and, at the same time, efficient transport system, and the implication of public and private parties will definitely have a positive effect in ensuring transport safety”, declared Cristian Iordan, Communication Manager – Romanian Information Service (SRI), who attended the “Railway Days” 2011 Summit, held in Bucharest in October.
According to the United Nations Organization, the public-private partnership can represent the progress engine in the acti-vity of the implicated parties by ensuring a knowledge, continuity and coherence plus, reducing the probability of risks and threats. “Internationally, the implication of private sector representatives in ensuring the security has become a necessity”, said Iordan.
Viable partnership formulae, in the context of a subtle interconnection between infrastructures and their connection with the national security, can help warn the authorities and citizens in time about risk factors and establish and implement a complex of measures on the protection of vulnerable objectives and identifying the technological solutions capable to limit and counteract risks.
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