385 María del Carmen Girón Tomás An analysis of the National Security Law... The capacity for resistance and recovery correlates to the resilience of the National Security System, as a set of bodies, organisations, resources and procedures integrated in the structure provided for in art. 20 of the NSL, in anticipating what will happen and their management of risks and threats in order to contribute to their neutralisation. Regarding the management of information and knowledge as a fundamental component of National Security, art.9 section 2 of the NSL establishes that the Intelligence and Information Services of the State, in accordance with the scope of their powers, will permanently support the National Security system, providing elements of judgment, information, analysis, studies and proposals necessary to prevent and detect risks and threats and contribute to their neutralisation, and in this sense, the consideration of Mobility and Land Transport as a strategic line of action would enable the integration of the information it generates in an orderly manner within the national information system. For the purposes of this law, these shall be, among others, cybersecurity, economic and financial security, maritime security, security of airspace and outer space, energy security, health security and preservation of the environment. The NSL uses the so-called “areas of special interest for National Security” as core material complementary to the fundamental components of Security National: National Defence, Public Security and Foreign Action, in order to integrate them into the National Security System and submit them to the directives dictated by the Prime Minister within the framework of the new policy on National Security, since they are basic to the preservation of the rights, freedom and well-being of citizens and guarantee the provision of essential services and resources. To this effect, art.10 of the NSL employs the open-ended formula of “among others”, thereby not ruling out other areas. Therefore, in view of the fact that the Security of airspace and outer space, as well as maritime security are referred to as areas of special interest for National Security, it is hereby proposed that the Security of Land Routes be also specifically included in art.10 of the NSL as an area of special interest for National Security, on account of its transnational, crosscutting nature, and its budgetary requirement for the welfare and preservation of rights and freedoms. Using as a reference the format employed in ESN 2013, “A shared project”, the wording for the objective of the Security of Land Routes could be as follows: to promote a policy of security in the terrestrial environment for the purpose of maintaining security across land routes, and their protection zones, as well as to protect inland traffic, integrating the protection of critical terrestrial and land transport infrastructures and preserving the security of inland modes of transport and the persons who use them in the face of criminal and terrorist activities on land routes used for the perpetration of criminal or terrorist acts. Thereafter, by identifying the risks and threats involved, lines of action can be determined, and to that end, we advocate its inclusion as one of the lines of action provided for under the new National Security Strategy, along with the consideration of Mobility and Land Transport Security to help achieve the aforementioned objectives. http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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