Easier financing: recognize security measures as core system costs within national tariffs and leverage EU instruments such as the Cable Infrastructure Fund, Connecting Europe Facility for Energy, Competitiveness Fund, and future funding to explicitly support grid security upgrades.

Role clarification: clearly allocate responsibilities for monitoring, threat detection, crisis management, load shedding, mitigation actions, and recovery.

Regional offshore frameworks: create regional offshore protection measures, strengthen cooperation in detection, secure communications, and enforcement; align penalties for interference with maritime infrastructure and reinforce rapid restoration, addressing bottlenecks from reliance on a small circle of providers.

Harmonised risk assessment: implement an integrated electricity security assessment to establish common threat awareness and prioritize mitigation based on system-wide impact.

Security-sensitive information transparency: establish clearer exemptions to protect sensitive security information while maintaining necessary transparency.

Rapid cross-border resource deployment: implement emergency flexibility rules to enable transfer, resale, or direct order-sharing of specialized power equipment across borders without lengthy procurement processes.

Minimum standards: establish baseline requirements for operational readiness, physical protection, redundancy and spare capacity, plus coordinated restoration protocols.

ENTSO-E is calling on the European Union to strengthen its energy security framework with targeted policy updates and streamlined regulations.

Support for EU initiatives: endorses the Security Framework review, the Submarine Cable Security Toolbox, and the European Grids Package, emphasizing a three-dimensional approach to security of supply, physical protection, and cybersecurity.

Seven core recommendations: ENTSO-E outlines seven core recommendations to guide EU discussions on critical infrastructure security.