Guidelines on the Risk Management of Commercial Banks’ Information Technology ——附加英文版
China Banking Regulatory Commission
Guidelines on the Risk Management of Commercial Banks’ Information Technology
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1. Pursuant to the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Banking Regulation and Supervision, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Commercial Banks, the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Administration of Foreign-funded Banks, and other applicable laws and regulations, the Guidelines on the Risk Management of Commercial Banks’ Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines) is formulated.
Article 2. The Guidelines apply to all the commercial banks legally incorporated within the territory of the People’s Republic of China.
The Guidelines may apply to other banking institutions including policy banks, rural cooperative banks, urban credit cooperatives, rural credit cooperatives, village banks, loan companies, financial asset management companies, trust and investment companies, finance firms, financial leasing companies, automobile financial companies and money brokers.
Article 3. The term “information technology” stated in the Guidelines shall refer to the system built with computer, communication and software technologies, and employed by commercial banks to handle business transactions, operation management, and internal communication, collaborative work and controls. The term also include IT governance, IT organization structure and IT policies and procedures.
Article 4. The risk of information technology refers to the operational risk, legal risk and reputation risk that are caused by natural factor, human factor, technological loopholes or management deficiencies when using information technology.
Article 5. The objective of information system risk management is to establish an effective mechanism that can identify, measure, monitor, and control the risks of commercial banks’ information system, ensure data integrity, availability, confidentiality and consistency, provide the relevant early warning, and thereby enable commercial banks’ business innovations, uplift their capability in utilizing information technology, improve their core competitiveness and capacity for sustainable development.
Chapter II IT governance
Article 6. The legal representative of commercial bank should be responsible to ensure compliance of this guideline.
Article 7. The board of directors of commercial banks should have the following responsibilities with respect to the management of information systems:
(1) Implementing and complying with the national laws, regulations and technical standards pertaining to the management of information systems, as well as the regulatory requirements set by the China Banking Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as the “CBRC”);
(2) Periodically reviewing the alignment of IT strategy with the overall business strategies and significant policies of the bank, assessing the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the IT organization.
(3) Approving IT risk management strategies and policies, understanding the major IT risks involved, setting acceptable levels for these risks, and ensuring the implementation of the measures necessary to identify, measure, monitor and control these risks.
(4) Setting high ethical and integrity standards, and establishing a culture within the bank that emphasizes and demonstrates to all levels of personnel the importance of IT risk management.
(5) Establishing an IT steering committee which consists of representatives from senior management, the IT organization, and major business units, to oversee these responsibilities and report the effectiveness of strategic IT planning, the IT budget and actual expenditure, and the overall IT performance to the board of directors and senior management periodically.
(6) Establishing IT governance structure, proper segregation of duty, clear role and responsibility, maintaining check and balances and clear reporting relationship. Strengthening IT professional staff by developing incentive program.
(7) Ensuring that there is an effective internal audit of the IT risk management carried out by operationally independent, well-trained and qualified staff. The internal audit report should be submitted directly to the IT audit committee;
(8) Submitting an annual report to the CBRC and its local offices on information system risk management that has been reviewed and approved by the board of directors ;
(9) Ensuring the appropriating funding necessary for IT risk management works;
(10) Ensuring that all employees of the bank fully understand and adhere to the IT risk management policies and procedures approved by the board of directors and the senior management, and are provided with pertinent training.
(11) Ensuring customer information, financial information, product information and core banking system of the legal entity are held independently within the territory, and complying with the regulatory on-site examination requirements of CBRC and guarding against cross-border risk.
(12) Reporting in a timely manner to the CBRC and its local offices any serious incident of information systems or unexpected event, and quickly respond to it in accordance with the contingency plan;
(13) Cooperating with the CBRC and its local offices in the supervisory inspection of the risk management of information systems, and ensure that supervisory opinions are followed up; and
(14) Performing other related IT risk management tasks.
Article 8. The head of the IT organization, commonly known as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) should report directly to the president. Roles and responsibilities of the CIO should include the following:
(1) Playing a direct role in key decisions for the business development involving the use of IT in the bank;
(2) The CIO should ensure that information systems meet the needs of the bank, and IT strategies, in particular information system development strategies, comply with the overall business strategies and IT risk management policies of the bank;
(3) The CIO should also be responsible for the establishment of an effective and efficient IT organization to carry out the IT functions of the bank. These include the IT budget and expenditure, IT risk management, IT policies, standards and procedures, IT internal controls, professional development, IT project initiatives, IT project management, information system maintenance and upgrade, IT operations, IT infrastructure, Information security, disaster recovery plan (DRP), IT outsourcing, and information system retirement;
(4) Ensuring the effectiveness of IT risk management throughout the organization including all branches.
(5) Organizing professional trainings to improve technical proficiency of staff.
(6) Performing other related IT risk management tasks.
Article 9. Commercial banks should ensure that a clear definition of the IT organization structure and documentation of all job descriptions of important positions are always in place and updated in a timely manner. Staff in each position should meet relevant requirements on professional skills and knowledge. The following risk mitigation measures should be incorporated in the management program of related staff:
(1) Verification of personal information including confirmation of personal identification issued by government, academic credentials, prior work experience, professional qualifications;
(2) Ensuring that IT staff can meet the required professional ethics by checking character reference;
(3) Signing of agreements with employees about understanding of IT policies and guidelines, non-disclosure of confidential information, authorized use of information systems, and adherence to IT policies and procedures; and
(4) Evaluation of the risk of losing key IT personnel, especially during major IT development stage or in a period of unstable IT operations, and the relevant risk mitigation measures such as staff backup arrangement and staff succession plan.
Article 10. Commercial banks should establish or designate a particular department for IT risk management. It should report directly to the CIO and the Chief Risk Officer (or risk management committee), serve as a member of the IT incident response team, and be responsible for coordinating the establishment of policies regarding IT risk management, especially the areas of information security, BCP, and compliance with the CBRC regulations, advising the business departments and IT department in implementing these policies, providing relevant compliance information, conducting on-going assessment of IT risks, and ensuring the follow-up of remediation advice, monitoring and escalating management of IT threats and non-compliance events.
Article 11. Commercial banks should establish a special IT audit role and responsibility within internal audit function, which should put in place IT audit policies and procedures, develop and execute IT audit plan.
Article 12. Commercial banks should put in place policies and procedures to protect intellectual property rights according to laws regarding intellectual properties, ensure purchase of legitimate software and hardware, prevention of the use of pirated software, and the protection of the proprietary rights of IT products developed by the bank, and ensure that these are fully understood and complied by all employees.
Article 13. Commercial banks should, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, disclose the risk profile of their IT normatively and timely.
Chapter III IT Risk Management
Article 14. Commercial banks should formulate an IT strategy that aligns with the overall business plan of the bank, IT risk assessment plan and an IT operational plan that can ensure adequate financial resources and human resources to maintain a stable and secure IT environment.
Article 15. Commercial banks should put in place a comprehensive set of IT risk management policies that include the following areas:
(1) Information security classification policy
(2) System development, testing and maintenance policy
(3) IT operation and maintenance policy
(4) Access control policy
(5) Physical security policy
(6) Personnel security policy
(7) Business Continuity Planning and Crisis and Emergency Management procedure
Article 16. Commercial banks should maintain an ongoing risk identification and assessment process that allows the bank to pinpoint the areas of concern in its information systems, assess the potential impact of the risks on its business, rank the risks, and prioritize mitigation actions and the necessary resources (including outsourcing vendors, product vendors and service vendors).
Article 17. Commercial banks should implement a comprehensive set of risk mitigation measures complying with the IT risk management policies and commensurate with the risk assessment of the bank. These mitigation measures should include:
(1) A set of clearly documented IT risk policies, technical standards, and operational procedures, which should be communicated to the staff frequently and kept up to date in a timely manner;
(2) Areas of potential conflicts of interest should be identified, minimized, and subject to careful, independent monitoring. Also it requires that an appropriate control structure is set up to facilitate checks and balances, with control activities defined at every business level, which should include:
- Top level reviews;
- Controls over physical and logical access to data and system;
- Access granted on “need to know” and “minimum authorization” basis;
- A system of approvals and authorizations; and
- A system of verification and reconciliation.
Article 18. Commercial banks should put in place a set of ongoing risk measurement and monitoring mechanisms, which should include
(1) Pre and post-implementation review of IT projects;
(2) Benchmarks for periodic review of system performance;
(3) Reports of incidents and complaints about IT services;
(4) Reports of internal audit, external audit, and issues identified by CBRC; and
(5) Arrangement with vendors and business units for periodic review of service level agreements (SLAs).
(6) The possible impact of new development of technology and new threats to software deployed.
(7) Timely review of operational risk and management controls in operation area.
(8) Assess the risk profile on IT outsourcing projects periodically.
Article 19. Chinese commercial banks operating offshore and the foreign commercial banks in China should comply with the relevant regulatory requirements on information systems in and outside the People’s Republic of China.
Chapter IV Information Security
Article 20. Information technology department of commercial banks should oversee the establishment of an information classification and protection scheme. All employees of the bank should be made aware of the importance of ensuring information confidentiality and provided with the necessary training to fully understand the information protection procedures within their responsibilities.
Article 21. Commercial banks should put in place an information security management function to develop and maintain an ongoing information security management program, promote information security awareness, advise other IT functions on security issues, serve as the leader of IT incident response team, and report the evaluation of the information security of the bank to the IT steering committee periodically. The Information security management program should include Information security standards, strategy, an implementation plan, and an ongoing maintenance plan.
Information security policy should include the following areas:
(1) IT security policy management
(2) Organization information security
(3) Asset management
(4) Personnel security
(5) Physical and environment security
(6) Communication and operation security
(7) Access control and authentication
(8) Acquirement, development and maintenance of information system
(9) Information security event management
(10) Business continuity management
(11) Compliance
Article 22. Commercial banks should have an effective process to manage user authentication and access control. Access to data and system should be strictly limited to authorized individuals whose identity is clearly established, and their activities in the information systems should be limited to the minimum required for their legitimate business use. Appropriate user authentication mechanism commensurate with the classification of information to be accessed should be selected. Timely review and removal of user identity from the system should be implemented when user transfers to a new job or leave the commercial bank.
Article 23. Commercial banks should ensure all physical security zones, such as computer centers or data centers, network closets, areas containing confidential information or critical IT equipment, and respective accountabilities are clearly defined, and appropriate preventive, detective, and recuperative controls are put in place.
Article 24. Commercial banks should divide their networks into logical security domains (hereinafter referred to as the “domain”) with different levels of security. The following security factors have to be assessed in order to define and implement effective security controls, such as physical or logical segregation of network, network filtering, logical access control, traffic encryption, network monitoring, activity log, etc., for each domain and the whole network.
(1) criticality of the applications and user groups within the domain;
(2) Access points to the domain through various communication channels;
(3) Network protocols and ports used by the applications and network equipment deployed within the domain;
(4) Performance requirement or benchmark;
(5) Nature of the domain, i.e. production or testing, internal or external;
(6) Connectivity between various domains; and
(7) Trustworthiness of the domain.
Article 25. Commercial banks should secure the operating system and system software of all computer systems by
(1) Developing baseline security requirement for each operating system and ensuring all systems meet the baseline security requirement;
(2) Clearly defining a set of access privileges for different groups of users, namely, end-users, system development staff, computer operators, and system administrators and user administrators;
(3) Setting up a system of approval, verification, and monitoring procedures for using the highest privileged system accounts;
(4) Requiring technical staff to review available security patches, and report the patch status periodically; and
(5) Requiring technical staff to include important items such as unsuccessful logins, access to critical system files, changes made to user accounts, etc. in system logs, monitors the systems for any abnormal event manually or automatically, and report the monitoring periodically.
Article 26. Commercial banks should ensure the security of all the application systems by
(1) Clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of end-users and IT staff regarding the application security;
(2) Implementing a robust authentication method commensurate with the criticality and sensibility of the application system;
(3) Enforcing segregation of duties and dual control over critical or sensitive functions;
(4) Requiring verification of input or reconciliation of output at critical junctures;
(5) Requiring the input and output of confidential information are handled in a secure manner to prevent theft, tampering, intentional leakage, or inadvertent leakage;
(6) Ensuring system can handle exceptions in a predefined way and provide meaningful message to users when the system is forced to terminate; and
(7) Maintaining audit trail in either paper or electronic format.
(8) Requiring user administrator to monitor and review unsuccessful logins and changes to users accounts.
Article 27. Commercial banks should have a set of policies and procedures controlling the logging of activities in all production systems to support effective auditing, security forensic analysis, and fraud prevention. Logging can be implemented in different layers of software and on different computer and networking equipment, which falls into two broad categories:
(1) Transaction journals. They are generated by application software and database management system, and contain authentication attempts, modification to data, error messages, etc. Transaction journals should be kept according to the national accounting policy.
(2) System logs. They are generated by operating systems, database management system, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and routers, etc., and contain authentication attempts, system events, network events, error messages, etc. System logs should be kept for a period scaled to the risk classification, but no less than one year.
Banks should ensure that sufficient items be included in the logs to facilitate effective internal controls, system troubleshooting, and auditing while taking appropriate measures to ensure time synchronization on all logs. Sufficient disk space should be allocated to prevent logs from being overwritten. System logs should be reviewed for any exception. The review frequency and retention period for transaction logs or database logs should be determined jointly by IT organization and pertinent business lines, and approved by the IT steering committee.
Article 28. Commercial banks should have the capacity to employ encryption technologies to mitigate the risk of losing confidential information in the information systems or during its transmission. Appropriate management processes of the encryption facilities should be put in place to ensure that
(1) Encryption facilities in use should meet national security standards or requirements;
(2) Staff in charge of encryption facilities are well trained and screened;
(3) Encryption strength is adequate to protect the confidentiality of the information; and
(4) Effective and efficient key management procedures, especially key lifecycle management and certificate lifecycle management, are in place.
Article 29. Commercial banks should put in place an effective and efficient system of securing all end-user computing equipment which include desktop personal computers (PCs), portable PCs, teller terminals, automatic teller machines (ATMs), passbook printers, debit or credit card readers, point of sale (POS) terminals, personal digital assistant (PDAs), etc and conduct periodic security checks on all equipments.
Article 30. Commercial banks should put in place a set of policies and procedures to govern the collection, processing, storage, transmission, dissemination, and disposal of customer information.
Article 31. All employees, including contract staff, should be provided with the necessary trainings to fully understand these policies procedures and the consequences of their violation. Commercial banks should adopt a zero tolerance policy against security violation.
Chapter V Application System Development, Testing and Maintenance
Article 32. Commercial banks should have the capability to identify, plan, acquire, develop, test, deploy, maintain, upgrade, and retire information systems. Policies and procedures should be in place to govern the initiation, prioritization, approval, and control of IT projects. Progress reports of major IT projects should be submitted to and reviewed by the IT steering committee periodically. Decisions involving significant change of schedule, change of key personnel, change of vendors, and major expenditures should be included in the progress report.
Article 33. Commercial banks should recognize the risks associated with IT projects, which include the possibilities of incurring various kinds of operational risk, financial losses, and opportunity costs stemming from ineffective project planning or inadequate project management controls of the bank. Therefore, appropriate project management methodologies should be adopted and implemented to control the risks associated with IT projects.
Article 34. Commercial banks should adopt and implement a system development methodology to control the life cycle of Information systems. The typical phases of system life cycle include system analysis, design, development or acquisition, testing, trial run, deployment, maintenance, and retirement. The system development methodology to be used should be commensurate with the size, nature, and complexity of the IT project, and, generally speaking, should facilitate the management of the following risks.
Article 35. Commercial banks should ensure system reliability, integrity, and maintainability by controlling system changes with a set of policies and procedures, which should include the following elements.
(1) Ensure that production systems are separated from development or testing systems;
(2) Separating the duties of managing production systems and managing development or testing systems;
(3) Prohibiting application development and maintenance staff from accessing production system under normal circumstances unless management approval is granted to perform emergency repair, and all emergency repair activities should be recorded and reviewed promptly;
(4) Promoting changes of program or system configuration from development and testing systems to production systems should be jointly approved by IT organization and business departments, properly documented, and reviewed periodically.
Article 36. Commercial banks should have in place a set of policies, standards, and procedures to ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. These policies should be in accordance with data integrity amid IT development procedure.
Article 37. Commercial banks should ensure that Information system problems could be tracked, analyzed, and resolved systematically through an effective problem management process. Problems should be documented, categorized, and indexed. Support services or technical assistance from vendors, if necessary, should also be documented. Contacts and relevant contract information should be made readily available to the employees concerned. Accountability and line of command should be delineated clearly and communicated to all employees concerned, which is of utmost importance to performing emergency repair.
Article 38. Commercial banks should have a set of policies and procedures controlling the process of system upgrade. System upgrade is needed when the hardware reaches its lifespan or runs out of capacity, the underpinning software, namely, operating system, database management system, middleware, has to be upgraded, or the application software has to be upgraded. The system upgrade should be treated as a project and managed by all pertinent project management controls including user acceptance testing.
Chapter VI IT Operations
Article 39. Commercial banks should consider fully the environmental threats (e.g. proximity to natural disaster zones, dangerous or hazardous facilities or busy/major roads) when selecting the locations of their data centers. Physical and environmental controls should be implemented to monitor environmental conditions could affect adversely the operation of information processing facilities. Equipment facilities should be protected from power failures and electrical supply interference.
Article 40. In controlling access by third-party personnel (e.g. service providers) to secured areas, proper approval of access should be enforced and their activities should be closely monitored. It is important that proper screening procedures including verification and background checks, especially for sensitive technology-related jobs, are developed for permanent and temporary technical staff and contractors.
Article 41. Commercial banks should separate IT operations or computer center operations from system development and maintenance to ensure segregation of duties within the IT organization. The commercial banks should document the roles and responsibilities of data center functions.
Article 42. Commercial banks are required to retain transactional records in compliance with the national accounting policy. Procedures and technology are needed to be put in place to ensure the integrity, safekeeping and retrieval requirements of the archived data.
Article 43. Commercial banks should detail operational instructions such as computer operator tasks, job scheduling and execution in the IT operations manual. The IT operations manual should also cover the procedures and requirements for on-site and off-site backup of data and software in both the production and development environments (i.e. frequency, scope and retention periods of back-up).
Article 44. Commercial banks should have in place a problem management and processing system to respond promptly to IT operations incidents, to escalate reported incidents to relevant IT management staff and to record, analyze and keep tracks of all these incidents until rectification of the incidents with root cause analysis completed. A helpdesk function should be set up to provide front-line support to users on all technology-related problems and to direct the problems to relevant IT functions for investigation and resolution.
Article 45. Commercial banks should establish service level agreement and assess the IT service level standard attained.
Article 46. Commercial banks should implement a process to ensure that the performance of application systems is continuously monitored and exceptions are reported in a timely and comprehensive manner. The performance monitoring process should include forecasting capability to enable exceptions to be identified and corrected before they affect system performance.
Article 47. Commercial banks should carry out capacity plan to cater for business growth and transaction increases due to changes of economic conditions. Capacity plan should be extended to cover back-up systems and related facilities in addition to the production environment.
Article 48. Commercial banks should ensure the continued availability of technology related services with timely maintenance and appropriate system upgrades. Proper record keeping (including suspected and actual faults and preventive and corrective maintenance records) is necessary for effective facility and equipment maintenance.
Article 49. Commercial banks should have an effective change management process in place to ensure integrity and reliability of the production environment. Commercial banks should develop a formal change management process.
Chapter VII Business Continuity Management
Article 50. Commercial banks should have in place appropriate arrangements, having regard to the nature, scale and complexity of its business, to ensure that it can continue to function and meet its regulatory obligations in the event of an unforeseen interruption. These arrangements should be regularly updated and tested to ensure their effectiveness.
Article 51. Commercial banks should consider the likelihood and impact of a disruption to the continuity of its operation from unexpected events. This should include assessing the disruptions to which it is particularly susceptible including but not limited to:
(1) Loss of failure of internal and external resources (such as people, systems and other assets);
(2) The loss or corruption of its information; and
(3) External events (such as war, earthquake, typhoon, etc).
Article 52. Commercial bank should act to reduce both the likelihood of disruptions (including system resilience and dual processing); and the impact of disruptions (including by contingency arrangements and insurance).
Article 53. Commercial bank should document its strategy for maintaining continuity of its operations, and its plans for communicating and regularly testing the adequacy and effectiveness of this strategy. Commercial bank should establish:
(1) Formal business continuity plans that outline arrangements to reduce the impact of a short, medium and long-term disruption, including:
a) Resource requirements such as people, systems and other assets, and arrangements for obtaining these resources;
b) The recovery priorities for the commercial bank’s operations; and
c) Communication arrangements for internal and external concerned parties (including CBRC, clients and the press);
(2) Escalation and invocation plans that outline the processes for implementing the business continuity plans, together with relevant contact information;
(3) Processes to validate the integrity of information affected by the disruption;
(4) Processes to review and update (1) to (3) following changes to the commercial bank’s operations or risk profile.
Article 54. A final BCP plan and an annual drill result must be signed off by the IT Risk management, or internal auditor and IT Steering Committee.
Chapter VIII Outsourcing
Article 55. Commercial banks cannot contract out its regulatory obligations and should take reasonable care to supervise the discharge of outsourcing functions.
Article 56. Commercial banks should take particular care to manage material outsourcing arrangement (such as outsourcing of data center, IT infrastructure, etc.), and should notify CBRC when it intends to enter into material outsourcing arrangement.
Article 57. Before entering into, or significantly changing, an outsourcing arrangement, the commercial bank should:
(1) Analyze how the arrangement will fit with its organization and reporting structure; business strategy; overall risk profile; and ability to meet its regulatory obligations;
(2) Consider whether the arrangements will allow it to monitor and control its operational risk exposure relating to the outsourcing;
(3) Conduct appropriate due diligence of the service provider’s financial stability, expertise and risk assessment of the service provider, facilities and ability to cover the potential liabilities;
(4) Consider how it will ensure a smooth transition of its operations from its current arrangements to a new or changed outsourcing arrangement (including what will happen on the termination of the contract); and
(5) Consider any concentration risk implications such as the business continuity implications that may arise if a single service provider is used by several firms.
Article 58. In negotiating its contract with a service provider, the commercial bank should have regard to ( but not limited to ):
(1) Reporting and negotiation requirements it may wish to impose on the service provider;
(2) Whether sufficient access will be available to its internal auditors, external auditors and banking regulators;
(3) Information ownership rights, confidentiality agreements and Firewalls to protect client and other information (including arrangements at the termination of contract);
(4) The adequacy of any guarantees and indemnities;
(5) The extent to which the service provider must comply with the commercial bank’s polices and procedures covering IT Risk;
(6) The extent to which the service provider will provide business continuity for outsourced operations, and whether exclusive access to its resources is agreed;
(7) The need for continued availability of software following difficulty at a third party supplier;
(8) The processes for making changes to the outsourcing arrangement and the conditions under which the commercial bank or service provider can choose to change or terminate the outsourcing arrangement, such as where there is:
a) A change of ownership or control of the service provider or commercial bank; or
b) Significant change in the business operations of the service provider or commercial bank; or
c) Inadequate provision of services that may lead to the commercial bank being unable to meet its regulatory obligations.
Article 59. In implementing a relationship management framework, and drafting the service level agreement with the service provider, the commercial bank should have regarded to (but not limited to):
(1) The identification of qualitative and quantitative performance targets to assess the adequacy of service provision, to both the commercial bank and its clients, where appropriate;
(2) The evaluation of performance through service delivery reports and periodic self assessment and independent review by internal or external auditors; and
(3) Remediation action and escalation process for dealing with inadequate performance.
Article 60. The commercial bank should enhance IT related outsourcing management, in place following (not limited to ) measures to ensure data security of sensitive information such as customer information:
(1) Effectively separated from other customer information of the service provider;
(2) The related staff of service provider should be authorized on “need to know” and “minimum authorization” basis;
(3) Ensure service provider guarantee its staff for meeting the confidential requests;
(4) All outsourcing arrangements related to customer information should be identified as material outsourcing arrangements and the customers should be notified;
(5) Strictly monitor re-outsourcing actions of the service provider, and implement adequate control measures to ensure information security of the bank;
(6) Ensure all related sensitive information be refunded or deleted from the service provider’s storage when terminating the outsourcing arrangement.
Article 61. The commercial bank should ensure that it has appropriate contingency in the event of a significant loss of services from the service provider. Particular issues to consider include a significant loss of resources, turnover of key staff, or financial failure of, the service provider, and unexpected termination of the outsourcing agreement.
Article 62. All outsourcing contracts must be reviewed or signed off by IT Risk management, internal IT auditors, legal department and IT Steering Committee. There should be a process to periodically review and refine the service level agreements.
Chapter IX Internal Audit
Article 63. Depending on the nature, scale and complexity of its business, it may be appropriate for the commercial banks to delegate much of the task of monitoring the appropriateness and effectiveness of its systems and controls to an internal audit function. An internal audit function should be adequately resourced and staffed by competent individuals, be independent of the day-to-day activities of the commercial bank and have appropriate access to the bank’s records.
Article 64. The responsibilities of the internal IT audit function are:
(1) To establish, implement and maintain an audit plan to examine and evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of the bank’s systems and internal control mechanisms and arrangements;
(2) To issue recommendations based on the result of work carried out in accordance with 1;
(3) To verify compliance with those recommendations;
(4) To carry out special audit on information technology. The term “special audit” of information technology refers to the investigation, analysis and assessment on the security incidents of the information system, or the audit performed on a special subject based on IT risk assessment result as deemed necessary by the audit department.
Article 65. Based on the nature, scale and complexity of its business, deployment of information technology and IT risk assessment, commercial banks could determine the scope and frequency of IT internal audit. However, a comprehensive IT internal audit shall be performed at a minimum once every 3 years.
Article 66. Commercial banks should engage its internal audit department and IT Risk management department when implementing system development of significant size and scale to ensure it meets the IT Risk standards of the Commercial banks.
Chapter X External Audit
Article 67. The external information technology audit of commercial banks can be carried out by certified service providers in accordance with laws, rules and regulations.
Article 68. The commercial bank should ensure IT audit service provider to review and examine bank’s hardware, software, documentation and data to identify IT risk when they are commissioned to perform the audit. Vital commercial and technical information which is protected by national laws and regulations should not be reviewed.
Article 69. Commercial bank should communicate with the service provider in depth before the audit to determine audit scope, and should not withhold the truth or do not corporate with the service provider intentionally.
Article 70. CBRC and its local offices could designate certified service providers to carry out IT audit or related review on commercial banks when needed. When carrying out audit on commercial banks, as commissioned or authorized by CBRC or its local offices, the service providers shall present the letter of authority, and carry out the audit in accordance to the scope prescribed in the letter of authority.
Article 71. Once the IT audit report produced by the service providers is reviewed and approved by CBRC or its local offices, the report will have the same legal status as if it is produced by the CBRC itself. Commercial banks should come up with a correction action plan prescribed in the report and implement the corrective actions according to the timeframe.
Article 72. Commercial banks should ensure the service providers to strictly comply with laws and regulations to keep confidential and data security of any commercial secrets and private information learnt and IT risk information when conducting the audit. The service provider should not modify copy or take away any documents provided by the commercial banks.
Chapter XI Supplementary Provisions
Article 73. Commercial banks with no board of directors should have their operating decision-making bodies perform the responsibilities of the board with regard to IT risk management specified herein.
Article 74. The China Banking Regulatory Commission supervises and regulates the IT risk management of commercial banks under its authority by law.
Article 75. The power of interpretation and modification of the Guidelines shall rest with the China Banking Regulatory Commission.
Article 76. The Guidelines shall become effective as of the date of its issuance and the former Guidelines on the Risk Management of Banking Institutions’ Information Systems shall be revoked at the same time.
围场满族蒙古族自治县畜牧业管理条例（修正）
围场满族蒙古族自治县人大常委会
围场满族蒙古族自治县畜牧业管理条例（修正）
围场满族蒙古族自治县人大常委会
（围场满族蒙古族自治县第二届人民代表大会第五次会议通过 1998年4月3日河北省第九届人民代表大会常务委员会第二次会议批准）
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第四条 自治县、乡（镇）人民政府设立畜牧业发展基金。自治县每年从牲畜屠宰税中提取5％和畜牧行政主管部门上缴县财政的罚没款做为畜牧业发展基金。乡（镇）、村每年可以从集体总收入中提取2％连同收取的草地承包、租赁和有偿使用费做为同级畜牧业发展基金。畜牧业发
展基金用于草地建设和发展畜牧业生产。
第五条 自治县、乡（镇）人民政府鼓励企业、事业单位、个体工商户和外商以独资、合资及股份合作制等多种形式开办畜牧企业；建立畜牧业生产基地，积极扶持畜牧养殖适度规模发展，推进产业化经营。
第六条 自治县、乡（镇）人民政府普及和推广畜牧兽医科学知识和实用技术。鼓励畜牧兽医技术人员从事畜牧兽医技术承包或举办各种类型的畜牧养殖场、站、所、校。
第七条 自治县对在畜牧业发展中做出贡献的单位和个人给予表彰和奖励。
第二章 草 地
第八条 自治县境内的草地（包括草原、宜牧荒山、草坡、草滩、林间、林缘和零星草地及人工草场等，下同），属全民或集体所有。
全民或集体所有的草地，可以由集体或个人承包、租赁等有偿使用。
集体所有的草地和集体长期使用的全民所有的草地，由自治县人民政府登记造册，确认草地所有权或使用权，颁发证书。依法改变草地所有权或使用权，应当办理权属变更登记手续，更换证书。
草地所有权或使用权受法律保护，任何单位和个人不得侵犯。
第九条 国家建设征用草地，乡（镇）、村及个人开办企事业占用草地时，在取得权属单位同意后，报自治县以上人民政府批准。
第十条 使用草地饲养牛、羊及其它大牲畜的单位和个人，要区别役畜和商品畜，缴纳草地建设费。
草地建设费由当地乡（镇）人民政府负责征收。具体办法由自治县人民政府制定。
第十一条 禁止毁坏草地上的林网、林带、围栏及设施。
第十二条 草地使用者应当根据草地载畜量，确定放牧强度，防止草地退化、沙化、水土流失。严禁毁草开荒。
第十三条 自治县、乡（镇）人民政府支持和鼓励在农、林、牧区开展草地改良。合理利用农作物秸秆及其它植物资源。
支持和鼓励单位及个人建立优良牧草种籽繁育基地，推广优良草种。生产或经营牧草种籽应当报经自治县草原管理部门批准。
第十四条 草地实行统一规划，分级建设。采取合资、承包、股份制、股份合作制形式联合开发建设草地。对未按合同规定完成草地建设任务的，依照有关法律法规处理。
第三章 家畜（禽）繁育
第十五条 自治县畜牧行政主管部门负责畜禽品种普查、鉴定、保护、繁育、利用和引进优良畜种。
全民、集体单位和个人生产经营种畜禽，应当申请领取《种畜禽生产经营许可证》、《畜禽配种改良站（点）许可证》，并经工商行政管理机关登记注册。
第十六条 生产经营种畜禽的单位和个人应当按照规定的品种、品系、代别和利用年限从事生产经营，建立育种档案。变更生产经营范围的，应办理变更手续。
第十七条 销售的种畜禽，应符合国家标准或行业标准，并附有种畜禽场出具的《种畜禽合格证》。
第十八条 从事畜禽配种改良的人员，应当取得畜牧行政主管部门核发的专业资格证书。
第十九条 进行畜禽配种（包括人工授精）、孵化的，必须使用从种畜（禽）场引进并附有《种畜禽合格证》、或经畜牧行政主管部门审定认可的种畜禽。
第四章 畜（禽）防疫、检疫
第二十条 在自治县境内从事畜禽生产、屠宰、加工和经营畜禽产品的单位和个人，须向畜牧行政主管部门申报并领取《兽医卫生合格证》。工商行政管理机关凭此证办理登记注册，核发营业执照。
第二十一条 饲养育禽的单位和个人应当按照防疫计划，进行畜禽的预防接种、驱虫及其它防疫工作。对危害养殖业生产和人体健康的传染病实施强制免疫。
控制和消灭畜禽及人畜共患传染病。发现畜禽传染病或疑似传染病要及时上报，并立即采取封锁、隔离、消毒等防治措施。需扑杀、销毁病畜或进行无害化处理的，畜（货）主不得拒绝。处理病害畜禽及畜（禽）产品的费用，由畜（货）主承担。
第二十二条 任何单位和个人，到产地收购畜禽及其产品必须经当地兽医检疫部门进行产地检疫（验），并出具证明。
屠宰畜禽的单位和个人，由所在地兽医检疫部门实施宰前检疫和宰后检验，合格后要出具产品检疫（验）证明。胴体未加盖验讫印章的，不得经营销售和承运。
第二十三条 进入交易市场的畜禽及其产品，畜（货）主须持有产地检疫证明，或防疫注射证明，并接受动物检疫、监督员的查证验物。
自治县对生猪等动物实行定点屠宰、到点检疫。
禁止一切单位和个人买卖病死或死因不明的畜禽和腐烂变质的畜禽产品及其各种肉类产品。
第二十四条 进出县境的畜禽及其产品须持有县以上动物检疫站或其委托单位出具的运输检疫、检验、消毒证明。对未经检疫检验的，要采取活畜隔离、封存留验及补检、消毒等措施，任何单位和个人不得干扰、阻碍和拒绝。
第二十五条 畜牧行政主管部门负责对过往运输畜禽及其产品的车辆或赶运的畜禽进行查证验物。如发现无检疫（验）消毒证明、证明过期、证物不符或有可疑传染病的，要到指定地点进行补检或重检。
第五章 兽药经营与管理
第二十六条 畜牧行政主管部门应当确定有经营能力和条件的单位统一经营批发兽药（含饲料添加剂）。
兽药的经营和使用须保证质量，确保安全有效，严禁生产、经营和使用假、劣兽药。
第二十七条 畜牧行政主管部门设立兽药监督员。兽药监督员必须由兽药、兽医技术人员担任，并取得畜牧行政主管部门核发的《兽药监督员证》。
兽药监督员应当对兽药生产、经营和使用单位的兽药质量进行监督、检查，必要时可抽样和索取必需的资料，有关单位和个人不得拒绝和隐瞒。兽药监督员对兽药生产和科研单位提供的技术资料应当保密。
第二十八条 自治县、乡（镇）人民政府鼓励支持开办动物诊疗机构。申请开办动物诊疗机构应配备一名以上具有中等兽医专业毕业或相当于中等兽医专业毕业的技术人员，经自治县畜牧行政主管部门考核后领取《动物诊疗许可证》和《兽药经营许可证》，工商行政管理机关凭此证办
理登记注册，核发营业执照。
第六章 法律责任
第二十九条 违反本条例第八条规定，擅自改变、转让草地权属的，由自治县人民政府依法收回草地所有权和使用权；对直接责任者处以500元以下罚款；给他人造成损失的，依法赔偿损失。
第三十条 草地所有权或使用权发生权属争议时，由当事人协商解决，协商不成的，由自治县或乡（镇）人民政府裁决。
在草地权属未解决之前，应当保持现状，任何一方不得破坏草地和草地上的设施。
对破坏草地上的林网、林带、围栏及设施的，除依法赔偿损失外，并处以1至2倍的罚款；构成犯罪的，依法追究刑事责任。
第三十一条 违反本条例第十二条规定，超载放牧、或毁草开荒，致使草地植被及基础设施遭受破坏，畜牧行政主管部门要责令在限期内恢复植被，依法赔偿损失，并每亩处以50元至100元罚款；构成犯罪的，依法追究刑事责任。
第三十二条 违反本条例第十五条规定，未取得《种畜禽生产经营许可证》生产、经营种畜禽的，畜牧行政主管部门有权责令改正，没收违法所得，并处以200元至500元罚款。
第三十三条 违反本条例规定，擅自变更生产经营范围，无《种畜禽合格证》推广、销售种畜（禽），无《专业资格证书》进行改良配种，又拒绝、阻碍、逃避检查，限期内未能改正的，畜牧行政主管部门，除没收违法所得，处以300元至1，000元罚款外，并收回《种畜禽生产
经营许可证》。
第三十四条 违反本条例第二十条规定，无《兽医卫生合格证》从事畜禽饲养、加工、经营畜禽产品的，由畜牧行政主管部门没收其产品及违法所得，并处以500元以下罚款。
有证不符合兽医卫生标准的，畜牧行政主管部门要责令限期改正。逾期未能改正的，要收回《兽医卫生合格证》。
第三十五条 违反本条例第二十一条规定，拒绝接受防疫注射的，除限期补注外，并加倍收取防疫注射费。
第三十六条 违反本条例第二十二条规定，经营无检疫证明或证明过期，证物不符的畜禽、畜禽产品要封存留验（活畜隔离）。经检疫人员进行补检、重检。并加倍收取补验、重检费。
第三十七条 违反本条例第二十三条规定，经营病死畜禽和腐烂变质的畜禽产品及其各种肉类产品的，由畜牧行政主管部门没收所经营的畜禽、畜禽产品和肉类产品及违法所得，并处以没收产品价值的1至2倍罚款；构成犯罪的，依法追究刑事责任。
第三十八条 对生产、经营假劣兽药的单位和个人，由畜牧行政主管部门令其停止生产、经营该兽药，没收其药物和违法收入。同时，相应收回《兽药生产许可证》、《兽药经营许可证》、《兽药制剂许可证》。并视情节对直接责任者处以500元至5，000元的罚款；构成犯罪的
，依法追究刑事责任。
第三十九条 违反本条例第二十六条规定，造成中毒事故或对畜禽等造成其它危害后果的，致害单位或个人应承担赔偿责任。受害的一方可以请求畜牧行政主管部门处理，也可以直接向人民法院起诉；构成犯罪的、依法追究刑事责任。
第四十条 违反本条例第二十八条规定，动物诊疗机构无证营业，除没收所经营的药品、诊疗器材外，并处以500元至1，000元罚款。
第四十一条 畜牧行政主管部门的工作人员，滥用职权、玩忽职守、徇私舞弊、贪污受贿，由其所在单位或者主管机关给予行政处分；构成犯罪的，依法追究刑事责任。
第四十二条 当事人对处罚决定不服的，可在自接到处罚通知之日起十五日内向作出处罚的上一级机关申请复议。对复议决定不服的，可在自接到复议决定之日起十五日内向人民法院起诉。当事人也可以自接到处罚通知之日起直接向人民法院起诉。逾期不申请复议，也不向人民法院起
诉，又不履行处罚或处理决定的，由作出处罚决定的行政机关申请人民法院强制执行。
第七章 附 则
第四十三条 本条例自公布之日起施行。
1998年4月3日
