---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 C.F.R. § 800.214"
title: "31"
number: "800.214"
heading: "Critical infrastructure."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/800.214"
---

# §800.214. Critical infrastructure.


The term critical infrastructure means, in the context of a particular covered control transaction, systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems or assets would have a debilitating impact on national security.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 50 U.S.C. 4565; E.O. 11858, as amended, 73 FR 4677.

### Source

Source: 85 FR 3124, Jan. 17, 2020, unless otherwise noted.