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Digital operational Resilience Act (DORA)

Preamble
Recitals 106
Chapter I - General provisions (Article 1-4) 4
Chapter II - ICT risk management (Article 5-16) 12
Chapter III - ICT-related incident management, classification and reporting (Article 17-23) 7
Chapter IV - Digital operational resilience testing (Article 24-27) 4
Chapter V - Managing of ICT third-party risk (Article 28-44) 17
Chapter VI - Information-sharing arrangements (Article 45) 1
Chapter VII - Competent authorities (Article 46-56) 11
Chapter VIII - Delegated acts (Article 57) 1
Chapter IX - Transitional and final provisions (Article 58-64) 7

ICT concentration risk

Defined in Article 3, Digital operational Resilience Act (DORA)

Definitions over time (1)

16/01/2023 – today applies on 10/11/2026 Article 3, Digital operational Resilience Act (DORA) Scope: Whole act

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

‘ICT concentration risk’ means an exposure to individual or multiple related critical ICT third-party service providers creating a degree of dependency on such providers so that the unavailability, failure or other type of shortfall of such provider may potentially endanger the ability of a financial entity to deliver critical or important functions, or cause it to suffer other types of adverse effects, including large losses, or endanger the financial stability of the Union as a whole;

Used in (7 places in 6 provisions on 10/11/2026)

Digital operational Resilience Act (DORA) (7 in 6)

Recital 86 · Recital 88 · Article 3 · Article 28 · Article 32 · Article 35²