Budget Law 1403: Half percent of executive bodies’ credits are allocated to cyber security

According to the budget law of 1403 of the whole country, the executive bodies are obliged to allocate funds for the promotion of cyber security.

According to Iran digital economy annotation, on Esfand 29, 1402, the first part of the country’s annual budget law was promulgated by the president. According to paragraph “Alef” of Note 11 of this law, “all executive bodies subject to Article (5) of the Law on State Service Management and institutions and organizations that use the public budget and state companies, public non-state institutions, banks and for-profit institutions affiliated to the government, including Companies whose inclusion in the law requires specifying or mentioning their names – such as Iran’s National Oil Company – are required to pay at least half of the cost credits, excluding chapters 1, 4 and 6, for executive bodies and unavoidable costs, including salaries and wages of employees for the mentioned companies or from Allocate the credits for the acquisition of their capital assets in order to guarantee and improve the level of network security, infrastructure security and security of their systems and effectively prevent the occurrence of computer security (cyber) incidents in their devices.

The Ministry of Communications has been required to prepare the executive regulations of this clause within one month from the entry into force of the budget law and submit it to the Cabinet for approval. Also, the country’s program and budget organization has been obliged to submit a “detailed report on the performance of this section, including spending and measures taken in order to guarantee and improve the security level of the infrastructure network and the security of its systems and the effective prevention of computer security (cyber) incidents every three months. send it once to the program and budget and calculations and national security and foreign policy commissions of the Islamic Council.