Article 86

Backup management and redundancies

1. Union space operators and respectively entities applying a simplified risk management, as regards the critical assets and critical functions referred to in Article 79(1), first subparagraph, shall ensure a sound and comprehensive backup management policy to enable the restoration of the network and information systems, and to facilitate, with minimum downtime and limited disruption or loss recovery, the recovery processes and the retrieval of data, upon the activation of the response and disaster recovery measures. That policy shall specify the data subject to the backup management, the frequency of backups, and the restoration and recovery procedures and methods used.

2. Union space operators shall ensure that the backup systems do not jeopardise the security of the network and information systems, or the confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and availability of data.

3. Union space operators and respectively entities applying a simplified risk management, as regards the critical assets and critical functions referred to in Article 79(1), first subparagraph, shall ensure sufficient redundancies of relevant components of the network and information systems in the ground segment. They shall in particular:

(a) ensure redundancies of elements, other than the components of the network and information systems, as necessary to safeguard the continuity of operations, for instance redundancies of power supply in the form of generators for secondary processing sites;

(b) ensure geographical splitting into distinct locations, as deemed appropriate, of redundant elements and of back-up;

(c) ensure an adequate survivability of the space segment, without intervention, to facilitate quick recovery from incidents, such as notably from cyber-attacks, disasters, failures, as well as from an accidental interruption of services.

4. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 113, to specify further the requirements on backup needed to ensure adequate survivability of the space segment and to facilitate quick recovery from incidents in order to allow the provisions of this Regulation to be adapted to scientific and technical progress, based on the best available techniques.

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