If you have an ICP certificate, why do you need to apply for an ICP certificate?

What is the difference between an ICP business license and an ICP filing certificate? ICP filing certificate is for non-business **, and ICP business license is for the nature of business, ICP record certificate number is generally the abbreviation of the province and then "prepared", and then it will be an eight-digit ICP record number, and the ICP business license number is the abbreviation of the province plus an eight-digit ICP business license number will have a "number" word.

In accordance with the provisions of Internet-related laws and regulations such as the "Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services" and the "Measures for the Administration of the Filing of Non-commercial Internet Information Services" (Order No. 33 of the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China) issued by the Ministry of Information Industry and other relevant departments, non-commercial ** must perform the filing procedures. Operation** needs to go to the local communications authority to apply for an ICP license.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's (2010) No. 64 document "The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Further Implementing the Work Plan for Verification of the Authenticity of the Filing Letter", the implementation of the ** filing letter will be implemented from 2010, and the filing needs to be photographed in person. If you purchase overseas space such as the United States and South Korea, you do not need to file for it.

ICP business license refers to the value-added telecommunications business license handled by the business **. It refers to the registered capital of 1 million, domestic, operating enterprises, to the local communications management bureau for a series of procedures such as the submission of information to apply, after passing, the communications management bureau will issue a paper ICP certificate, for your company, name and domain name has a protective effect.

ICP filing is the first ICP filing, or domain name filing. In accordance with the spirit of the Administrative Measures for the Filing of Non-commercial Internet Information Services deliberated and approved by the 12th Ministerial Conference of the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China, the provision of non-commercial Internet information services within the territory of the People's Republic of China shall be recorded! Without filing, they must not engage in non-commercial Internet information services within the territory of the People's Republic of China.

For those who do not file, they will be fined or closed.

ICP filing is free of charge, you only need to register a member in ICP filing, submit relevant real information such as owner, manager, person in charge and so on to obtain an ICP filing number. Individuals, enterprises, units, groups, organizations, etc. can apply. It means that all generated domain names and built ones must be entered into the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China for the record, and the system will automatically generate them, such as:

1. The difference between ICP business license and ICP filing is reflected in the fact that all ** must have ICP filing, but only ** who provides paid information services need to apply for ICP license.

2. The connection between the ICP business license and the ICP record is reflected in: ** You can only apply for the ICP license if you have done the ICP record, and the ICP record must be applied for in the name of the company, and the unit that provides the server must have an IDC or ISP certificate and must have done the record in the local communications management bureau.

ICP business license is an Internet information service, which belongs to a business scope of value-added telecommunications business, and the ICP certificate becomes the first business license, and the business must apply for the ICP certificate, otherwise it is an illegal operation. Therefore, applying for an ICP certificate is a need for enterprises to operate legally. ICP licenses are issued by local communications management departments.

According to the policy of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China:

2) If it is an APP, there is a transaction function of online payment (including self-operated transactions and platform entry transactions), and the enterprise has a plan to be listed at home and abroad, it is also recommended to apply for an ICP certificate.

4) Some ** belong to the pure platform type, and there is a merchant settlement transaction function, and they also need to apply for an EDI certificate.

5) ICP certificate and EDI certificate are a way for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to supervise the business compliance of transaction** or APP enterprises. If you don't handle it, you will risk policy violations on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will also give your competitors the opportunity to report.

6) Some Internet companies that have already gone through the listing or IPO process are forced to postpone their reports because the qualification certificates required for relevant business compliance have not been successfully processed on the final date (or report date) of the planned listing or IPO reporting materials, resulting in a series of other very serious consequences. There are also some Internet companies that have a VAM agreement at the time when the business is launched during the financing process, but do not obtain the qualifications and go online in compliance before the time of the VAM, resulting in financing failure or VAM failure. In the past 10 years, we have served more than 200,000 Internet and technology companies in China in the Internet field, and we have seen too many cases of violations, being reported, affecting IPO listings or affecting financing.

If you don't know the specific handling matters, you can also consult some experienced ** companies, such as Alibaba Cloud, etc., to consult these, or entrust them to help handle them.

ICP can be understood as a telecom operator that provides Internet information services and value-added services to the majority of users, and is a formal operating enterprise or department approved by the competent national authority.

The Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services point out that Internet information services are divided into two categories: commercial and non-commercial. The State implements a licensing system for commercial Internet information services; Implement a filing system for non-commercial Internet information services. Those who have not obtained a license or have not performed filing formalities must not engage in Internet information services.

The ICP license belongs to the category of value-added telecommunications services and is called the telecommunications business license.

The content of the business ICP is mainly online advertising, paid provision of specific information content, e-commerce and other online application services. The state implements a licensing system for commercial ICPs.

Why do you need an ICP?

1. National policy requirements.

According to the provisions of the national "Internet Management Measures", the ICP license must be applied for for the business license, otherwise it is an illegal operation.

Where a business license has not been obtained or filing formalities have not been performed, and Internet information services are engaged in without authorization, the relevant competent departments shall order corrections within a set period of time in accordance with law, and give administrative penalties such as fines and closures; where a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility is pursued in accordance with law.

2. The basic right to engage in business.

If an enterprise has an ICP license, then the enterprise has the basic right to do information services on the Internet.

You can engage in related Internet operations without worrying about being ordered to close down due to lack of ICP license.

3. Enhance corporate endorsement.

Enterprises with ICP licenses can be said to be relatively strong endorsements in some industries, especially in the Internet finance industry, most investors will regard whether there is an ICP license as a standard for whether an Internet finance company is compliant, so the ICP license is very important.