Article 26 — Jurisdiction and territoriality

NIS2 — Directive (EU) 2022/2555

In the actEU 2022/2555
ChapterV · Jurisdiction and registration
CELEX32022L2555
Read on2026-08-14

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1. Entities falling within the scope of this Directive shall be considered to fall under the jurisdiction of the Member State in which they are established, except in the case of:

(a) providers of public electronic communications networks or providers of publicly available electronic communications services, which shall be considered to fall under the jurisdiction of the Member State in which they provide their services;

(b) DNS service providers, TLD name registries, entities providing domain name registration services, cloud computing service providers, data centre service providers, content delivery network providers, managed service providers, managed security service providers, as well as providers of online marketplaces, of online search engines or of social networking services platforms, which shall be considered to fall under the jurisdiction of the Member State in which they have their main establishment in the Union under paragraph 2;

(c) public administration entities, which shall be considered to fall under the jurisdiction of the Member State which established them.

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