CNB foreign technical assistance in 2010

At its meeting today, the Bank Board of the Czech National Bank approved the plan of foreign technical assistance for 2010. The plan contains ten seminars focused, for example, on inflation targeting, financial stability, payment systems, human resources management, international organisations, crisis management and money circulation. Next year, CNB experts will provide consultations not only in the CNB, but also directly in partner central banks.

The CNB has been providing technical assistance for nine years. In this way it actively expresses its openness to other central banks’ needs. Its experience of the transformation process and integration into European and international structures and its knowledge of the practical application of the latest findings and trends of contemporary economics have made it a sought-after institution. The technical assistance is targeted primarily at transition economies (staff of the central banks of countries of the former Soviet Union and the Balkans), with a preference for EU candidates (Croatia, Turkey and Macedonia) and potential candidates (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo).

CNB experts are also involved in joint projects of the European System of Central Banks coordinated by the ECB and in missions of the International Monetary Fund and other international organisations.

As in past years, the 2010 seminar programme will be published on the CNB’s website.

Marek Petruš, CNB Spokesman