Circular of the General Office of the China Banking Regulatory Commission on Issuing the Administrative Measures for the Commissioning and Change of Important Information Systems of Banking Financial Institutions

Circular of the General Office of the China Banking Regulatory Commission on Issuing the Administrative Measures for the Commissioning and Change of Important Information Systems of Banking Financial Institutions
Circular of the General Office of the China Banking Regulatory Commission on Issuing the Administrative Measures for the Commissioning and Change of Important Information Systems of Banking Financial Institutions

Yin Jian Ban Fa [2009] No.437

December 29, 2009

All banking regulatory bureaus, policy banks, state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, postal saving banks, and provincial rural credit cooperatives,

To strengthen the risk management in the commissioning and change of important information systems of banking financial institutions and ensure the safe and stable operation of such systems, the Administrative Measures for the Commissioning and Change of Important Information Systems of Banking Financial Institutions are hereby issued to you for compliance and implementation. All banking regulatory bureaus are requested to forward them to all banking financial institutions within their respective jurisdictions.

Administrative Measures for the Commissioning and Change of Important Information Systems of Banking Financial Institutions

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 The Administrative Measures for the Commissioning and Change of Important Information Systems of Banking Financial Institutions (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") are formulated in accordance with the Banking Regulation Law of the People's Republic of China and the Law of the People's Republic of China on Commercial Banks to strengthen the risk management in the commissioning and change of important information systems of banking financial institutions.

Article 2 The Measures shall apply to policy banks, state-owned commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, postal savings banks, urban commercial banks, rural commercial banks, rural cooperative banks, rural credit cooperatives, urban credit cooperatives, wholly foreign-funded banks, and Sino-foreign equity joint venture banks that are established within the territory of the People's Republic of China. Other financial institutions under the regulation of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "CBRC") shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the Measures.

Article 3 For the purpose of the Measures, important information systems refer to those systems that support important business and the information security and service quality of which are essential to the rights and interests of citizens, legal persons, and other organizations, or social order, public interests, and even national security, including customer-oriented and real-time demanding business processing and channel information systems that involve accounting treatment and management information systems that involve customer risk management and other business, as well as computer rooms, networks, and other infrastructures that support system operation.

Article 4 For the purpose of the Measures, the commissioning and change of important information systems mainly refer to the following:
1. the commissioning of important information systems.
2. the commissioning of computer rooms, networks, and other infrastructures that support the operation of important information systems.
3. the change of important information systems and infrastructures supporting the operation thereof that affects the services within a jurisdiction or of one or more branch systems or interrupts important business for three hours or more, including the relocation of computer rooms, the change of the application architecture of networks and core business systems, and the change of core business system versions.
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