Global Trade Alert
Global Trade Alert

China: Providers of 'critical information infrastructure' targeted by Antiterrorism Act

Announcement

27 Dec 2015

27th December 2015 - A draft 'Antiterrorism Act' from the Chinese National People's Congress enacted into law the obligation for providers of 'critical information infrastructure' to ensure all their servers are located in China, as well as directly providing the government with any encryption keys required to read the data.

Source

Sign in to access

Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

27 Dec 2015

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Updated: 27 Dec 2015
Local operations requirement In force

On the 27th December 2015, the PRC National People's Congress ratified a draft 'Antiterrorism Act' from 2014, which stated that any firms providing 'critical information infrastructure' in China wo...

Sign in to see more

Threads

See all

This state act is not part of any Thread yet.