Principles of a business continuity plan

The aim of the business continuity and recovery management plan is to ensure that continuity and recovery actions are implemented progressively and by choice, prioritizing critical activities, and then to envisage a return to normal operations throughout the company. The business continuity plan, which is then broken down by business line or organizational activity, aims to implement back-up measures to minimize the consequences of physical, IT or human disasters, and to define the minimum conditions for business continuity.

In practice, these plans also include measures aimed at recovering...