New responsibilities of CNB Board members

At its extraordinary meeting today, the Bank Board of the Czech National Bank decided on a new division of responsibilities among the Board members with effect from 11 December 2006. The CNB's Organisational Statute entrusts individual Board members with overseeing the CNB's core activities performed by organisational units of the CNB's headquarters and branches.

The division of responsibilities:

Zdeněk Tůma, Governor

General Secretariat
Internal Audit Department
Crisis Management and Classified Information Protection Department

Luděk Niedermayer, Vice-Governor

Monetary and Statistics Department
Human Resources Department
Communications Department

Miroslav Singer, Vice-Governor

Banking Regulation and Supervision Department
Capital Market Regulation and Supervision Department
Insurance Companies Regulation and Supervision Department

Mojmír Hampl, Chief Executive Director

Information Systems Department
Administration Department

Robert Holman, Chief Executive Director

Budget and Accounting Department
Economic Research Department

Pavel Řežábek, Chief Executive Director

Cash and Payment Systems Department
CNB's branches

Vladimír Tomšík, Chief Executive Director

Financial Markets Department
Risk Management and Transactions Support Department

Pavlína Bolfová, CNB spokesperson