Licensing and approval proceedings - credit unions

Specimen application forms and the content of their annexes and related applications are stipulated in Decree No. 355/2020 Coll. (see below). The requisites of applications, the specimen forms on which applications should be submitted, methodological and interpretation documents are defined in the following questionnaire forms and official information of the Czech National Bank.

Decrees

• Decree No. 355/2020 Coll. (pdf, 612 kB) on applications and certain information pursuant to the Act on Banks and the Act on Credit Unions

Official information, methodological documents

• Official Information of 5 August 2020 (pdf, 255 kB) regarding the interpretation of the terms trustworthiness and competence 
• Official Information of 7 July 2008 (pdf, 145 kB, available in Czech only), announcing the practice of the Czech National Bank regarding extract or copy from the crime register

Application forms

• Application for a licence for a bank / authorisation for a cooperative savings association (credit union) (MS Word, 279 kB, pdf, 87 kB)
• Application for a consent to the acquisition of or increase in the qualifying holding of a regulated legal entity / to control a regulated legal entity (MS Word, 33 kB, pdf, 249 kB)

Questionnaire forms for the assessment of entities in compliance with the Act on Credit Unions:

• Questionnaire for assessment of professional qualifications, trustworthiness and experience of a senior officer of an investment intermediary or of a person proposed for an executive managerial position in a financial holding entity (MS Word, 117 kB, pdf, 27 kB)
• Questionnaire containing legal and other aspects relating to the acquisition of a qualifying holding (MS Word, 55 kB, pdf, 17 kB)