Rules for privileged access to information
Reasons for the existence of the protected website
The system enabling privileged access to information before its official publication time (provision of embargoed information through a protected website) is intended to provide representatives of relevant specialised media with significant media and/or market coverage with enough time to process information so as to minimise inaccuracies in the presentation and interpretation of the information.
Rules for granting access
Access to the protected website is granted following approval by the Communication Division of the General Secretariat on the basis of a justified request submitted by the applicant.
Contact:
- E-mail: media@cnb.cz
- Telephone: +420 224 412 013
List of entities granted privileged access:
- Bloomberg
- ČTK
- Thomson Reuters
Overview of information published on the protected website
The schedule of regularly published information is available in the Calendar. However, selected information may be provided 15, 30 or 60 minutes in advance through the protected website.
| Overview of information published on the protected website (as from 1 January 2017) |
Availability on the protected website before publication time |
|---|---|
| CNB foreign exchange transactions (data) | 60 minutes |
| CNB foreign exchange reserves (data1) | 30 minutes |
| Graph of Risks to the Inflation Projection | 60 minutes |
| The Czech Republic’s international investment position and debt (data, commentary) | 30 minutes |
| CNB commentary on GDP figures (commentary) | 15 minutes |
| CNB commentary on inflation figures (commentary) | 15 minutes |
| CNB monetary base | 30 minutes |
| Harmonised monetary survey2 (data) | 30 minutes |
| Balance of payments – quarterly (data, commentary) | 30 minutes |
| Balance of payments – monthly (data, commentary) | 30 minutes |
| The setting of the countercyclical capital buffer rate (press release) | 60 minutes |
| Stress tests – banks (press release, results, data) |
60 minutes |
| Stress tests – insurance companies (press release, results, data) |
60 minutes |
| Minutes of the CNB Bank Board meetings | 60 minutes |
| Financial Stability Report (press release, Financial Stability Report) |
60 minutes |
| Monetary Policy Report – section “The decision, and the current outlook and its risks” (section “The decision, and the current outlook and its risks”, table of key macroeconomic indicators) |
60 minutes |
| Monetary Policy Reports | 60 minutes |
1 Only the time series of foreign exchange reserves is published on the protected website (the structure of foreign exchange reserves is published without an embargo directly in the public section of the website).
2 Compilation of the National Monetary Survey will end as of 31 January 2017 (the last data included will be those for December 2016). The Inflation Report – I/2016 explains in detail the reasons for the changeover and describes the main differences in definitions (p. 47 Box 2).