Information Security Working Group Meeting with OSCCA

2014-06-16 | All chapters

This meeting convened at the behest of the European Chamber to talk about a public call for comments that the OSCCA had issued on 16th February 2014 with regards to its Administrative Approval Catalogue (http://www.oscca.gov.cn/News/201402/News_1261.htm), in support of the Chamber’s lobbying effort for the WG’s Key Recommendation (KR) for the Position Paper 2014/15, particularly KR No. 1 “Speedily Release the Revised Commercial Encryption Regulations (CERs)”.

 

The meeting started with a PPT presentation of the Chamber’s suggestions in response to the cfc. Information Security WG Chair Donald Chan thereupon elaborated on the issues.

 

Vice Director ZHANG Pingwu mentioned that every country, including every EU member state, has its own regulations concerning information security [with regards to national security applications]. Hence, Vice Director ZHANG suggested that the EC’s DG TRADE was not the appropriate interlocutor for OSCCA [there was confusion about the delineation of cryptographic applications for national security and commercial usage].

 

In addition, the European Chamber mentioned a proposal for a bilateral ‘EU-China Academic Exchange on Cryptographic Research’, intended to be under the auspices of DG CONNECT and the MIIT, with OSCCA as a secondary partner. Vice Director ZHANG welcomed the proposal and explicitly stated his support for the workshop. On an aside, Vice Director ZHANG mentioned that such a workshop has also been held annually with the USA via the U.S. agency USITO.

 

Vice Director ZHANG furthermore stated that he would welcome further involvement with DG CONNECT in the future.