Sabotage protection
Protection against sabotage refers to all measures against sabotage . The threat can come from outside as well as from inside perpetrators. The task of sabotage protection is to protect against acts of sabotage vital or defensive facilities, the failure or destruction of which could seriously endanger the health or life of large parts of the population or which are indispensable for the functioning of the community.
Potential internal perpetrators who, because of their knowledge and / or their proximity to the facility, are able to commit acts of sabotage, should be prevented from doing so from the outset by means of sabotage protection. This is to ensure that the functionality of vital and defensive facilities is maintained. In addition, it should be prevented that a possible personal risk of these facilities is realized by an act of sabotage committed by an internal perpetrator.
Preventive personal protection against sabotage
The aim of preventive personal sabotage protection in Germany is to keep potential saboteurs (internal perpetrators) away from security-sensitive areas in order to ensure the protection of vital facilities. These are those whose impairment, due to the inherent operational risk, can seriously endanger the health or life of large parts of the population or which are indispensable for the functioning of the community and whose impairment causes considerable unrest in large parts of the population and thus dangers to the public Security or order. Anyone who is or is to be employed in a security-sensitive position within an institution that is vital to life or defense, or who is or is to be employed within a particularly security-sensitive position of the division of the Federal Ministry of Defense (" military security area "), of a security-sensitive activity ( § 4 para. 4 f. SÜG ). In order to prevent people from or should be employed in such sensitive areas who could pose a security risk, these too are subjected to a security check. Usually this takes place in the area of security protection . The bodies responsible for the security check appoint a sabotage protection officer and a deputy ( Section 3a (2 ) SÜG ). Preventive personal sabotage protection in Germany is a reaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States .
Technical and organizational sabotage protection
Technical and organizational measures for the protection of the various vital or defense-essential facilities defy uniform and effective legal regulation. Therefore they are not covered by the Security Review Act.
Vital facilities
There are vital institutions in Germany in the public and non-public areas.
Public area
Essential facilities are ( § 2-9 SÜFV ):
- the police enforcement service at the German Bundestag
- the technical work units / work units of information technology / work units that ensure the operation of information and communication technology, of the German Bundestag , the Bundesrat , the Federal Constitutional Court , the highest federal authorities and their business areas , the failure of which would have a significant direct impact on their activities
- the work units that serve the information technology of the Deutsche Bundesbank for cashless large-value payments, as well as the facilities for the central cash supply
- the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for construction and home to the guidance range for the civil and civil protection and its division, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance and the Federal Agency for Technical Relief and the Federal Agency for Digital Radio of emergency service
- In the division of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the work units of information processing and information technology, which ensure the granting of maintenance services by the Federal Employment Agency as well as services of general interest at or for social insurance institutions
- The Robert Koch Institute is part of the Federal Ministry of Health
- Within the scope of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, work units of scientific institutions that work to a considerable extent with highly toxic substances or pathogenic microorganisms.
Non-public area
Vital facilities in the non-public area are those parts of companies that are tasked with setting up or operating digital radio for authorities and organizations with security tasks or with federal information and communication technology, and whose failure is for setting up or operating digital radio for authorities and organizations with security tasks or the activities of the highest federal authorities as well as their business areas would directly and significantly impair ( § 9a SÜFV ).
In addition, the parts of telecommunications companies that operate technical facilities or systems that can send, transmit, convey, receive, control or monitor electromagnetic or optical signals that can be identified as messages ("telecommunications systems"), the failure of which requires the provision or maintenance of the transmission paths after Post and Telecommunications Assurance Act and parts of companies that operate control centers for the electricity transmission network, the failure of which can significantly impair the supra-regional electricity supply ( Section 10 (1) SÜFV ).
Furthermore, the parts of companies in whose operational area hazardous substances of certain quantities are present, insofar as the operation is not adequately protected against unauthorized interference by organizational or technical measures and this is documented in a safety report ( § 10a SÜFV ).
Finally, the control centers of companies that transport people or goods by rail or subway, as well as those parts of companies in which certain security plans are responsibly drawn up or who have access to these complete security plans ( Section 11 SÜFV ).
Defense-critical facilities
In the non-public sector, defense-critical facilities are those parts of companies that are used directly for the construction, maintenance or repair of defense vehicles, defense equipment or naval ships ( Section 10 (2 ) SÜFV ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General administrative regulation on personal security and preventive personal protection against sabotage - SÜG implementation regulation (SÜG-AVV). February 15, 2018, accessed March 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Protection against sabotage. In: www.verfassungsschutz.de. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .