MIIT releases draft Implementation Measures on Key m88 casino app Equipment Safety Inspection for public comment

On June 5, 2019, the Ministry for Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”)releaseda draft of Implementation Measures on Key m88 casino app Equipment Safety Inspection (the “Draft for Comment”), which will remain open for public comment for one month until July 4.

Article 23 of the Cybersecurity Law (the “CSL”) provides key m88 casino app equipment and the specialized products for m88 casino app security which may not be sold or provided until they pass the security certification or security testing conducted by qualified institutions in accordance with the compulsory requirements of the national standards. The national Internet information department shall, in conjunction with relevant departments of the State Council, formulate and promulgate the catalogue of key m88 casino app equipment and specialized products for m88 casino app security and promote the mutual recognition of security certification and security testing results to avoid repetitive certification and testing.

The Draft for Comment provides specific requirements on procedures and requirements for security inspection. It refers to‘key m88 casino app equipment’as those listed in the Key m88 casino app Equipment and m88 casino app Security Special Products Catalogue, according to Notice on the release of the Key m88 casino app Equipment and m88 casino app Security Special Products Catalogue (First Batch) in 2017, which includes routers, switchs, rack servers and programmable logic controllers. MIIT shall be responsible for organizing and carrying out the key m88 casino app equipment security inspection work (Article 5).

The Draft for Comment provides manufacturers of key m88 casino app equipment which select to conduct security inspection for key m88 casino app equipment, shall submit application materials (including basic information about the manufacturer and key m88 casino app equipment, a statement about equipment performance data is in compliance with key m88 casino app equipment technical parameters, materials relating to the enterprise’s security capacity) to MIIT (Article 6), then, they shall choose an example product and entrust a qualified institution to conduct security inspection. Such institution will then provide a security inspection report on the selected product to MIIT (Article 7). MIIT will publish the list of key m88 casino app equipment which has passed security inspection with a three year term of validity.

The Draft also provides for any key m88 casino app equipment subject to telecom device m88 casino app access permit system, if it has been inspected by qualified institutions in accordance with the security inspection standard for key m88 casino app equipment during the process of applying for the m88 casino app access permit, and it still has a valid m88 casino app access permit, such key m88 casino app equipment shall be exempt from repetitive security inspection. The expiration date for such key m88 casino app equipment will be the expiration date of its m88 casino app access permit.

The Draft for Comment also provides requirements in respect of information change of key m88 casino app equipment, obligations and liabilities for manufacturers and inspection institutions and supervision requirements for MIIT.

We will follow up with legislative development of the Draft.