BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 116/2025

SUBJECT: INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT – APPROVE THE EXIT OF GOLD ACQUIRED IN THE DOMESTIC MARKET FROM THE NATIONAL CUSTOMS TERRITORY.

VISTOS:

The Political Constitution of the State (CPE) of February 7, 2009.

Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) Law No. 1670 of October 31, 1995, and its modifications.

Law No. 1503 of May 5, 2023, on the Purchase of Gold Intended for the Strengthening of International Reserves.

Supreme Decree No. 25870 of August 11, 2000, approving the Regulation to the General Customs Law and its modifications.

The BCB Statute approved by Board Resolution No. 095/2022 of October 6, 2022.

The Regulation of the International Reserves Committee approved by Board Resolution No. 017/2023 of January 25, 2023.

The Regulation for the Administration of International Reserves approved by Board Resolution No. 071/2023 of May 9, 2023, and its modifications.

The Regulation for the Purchase of Gold in the Domestic Market Intended for the Strengthening of International Reserves within the framework of Law No. 1503 of May 5, 2023, approved by Board Resolution No. 066/2024 of May 28, 2024, and its modifications.

The report BCB-GOI-SRES-DNI-INF-2025-74 of September 17, 2025, issued by the International Operations Management (GOI).

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The report BCB-GAL-SANO-DLBCI-INF-2025-315 of September 22, 2025, issued by the Legal Affairs Management (GAL).

CONSIDERING:

That Articles 327 and 328 of the CPE determine that the BCB is a public law institution, with legal personality and its own assets, which, within the framework of the State's economic policy, has the function of maintaining the stability of the internal purchasing power of the currency, to contribute to economic and social development, its attribution being, in coordination with the economic policy determined by the Executive Branch, to administer International Reserves.

That Article 1 of Law No. 1670, modified by Article 64, section A3, numeral 1) of Law No. 1864 of June 15, 1998, on Popular Property and Credit, establishes that the BCB is a State institution, of public law, of an autarkic nature, of indefinite duration, with legal personality and its own assets and with legal domicile in the city of La Paz. It is the sole monetary and exchange authority of the country, with administrative, technical, and financial competence and specialized normative faculties of general application.

That Article 14 of Law No. 1670 establishes that the BCB will ensure the strengthening of International Reserves so as to allow the normal functioning of Bolivia's international payments.

That Article 15 of Law No. 1670 provides that the BCB's International Reserves are constituted, among others, by physical gold.

That Article 44 of Law No. 1670 establishes that the highest authority of the BCB is its Board of Directors, which is responsible for defining its policies, specialized normative rules of general application, and internal rules; as well as establishing the BCB's administrative, operational, and financial strategies, approving their respective short and medium-term programs. For the monitoring and oversight of their execution, it will have access to independent information, analysis, and audit services.

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That subsections a) and c) of Article 54 of Law No. 1670 indicate as attributions of the Board of Directors the following: To issue rules and adopt general decisions that are necessary for the BCB to fulfill the functions, competencies, and faculties assigned to it by the Law and to carry out the monitoring of the execution of monetary, exchange, credit, financial intermediation, international reserves administration, and other policies and regulations corresponding to the BCB in accordance with Law No. 1670.

That Article 1 of Law No. 1503 has the object of authorizing the BCB to Purchase Gold from the Domestic Market for the Strengthening of International Reserves and to carry out financial operations with International Reserves in gold in international markets.

That Paragraph I of Article 7 of Law No. 1503 provides that once the gold purchase process is concluded and total settlement has been made in the domestic market, the BCB may refine the gold abroad to obtain the quality of London Good Delivery bars and, in accordance with regulations, regulate the exit from the national customs territory.

That Paragraph I of Article 9 of the aforementioned Law No. 1503 establishes that the BCB will carry out operations in international markets with gold reserves, being able to buy, invest, deposit in custody, use in hedging instruments, transform, and convert them into foreign currencies, in order to optimize the liquidity and/or return of International Reserves.

That Article 185 of Supreme Decree No. 25870 of August 11, 2000, which approves the Regulation to the General Customs Law and its modifications, establishes that the exit from the national customs territory of International Reserves, composed of convertible currencies and gold, by virtue of operations carried out by the BCB with international financial organizations and other institutions abroad, derived from its central banking functions or that are carried out to facilitate payment and credit operations, must be carried out in accordance with applicable legal provisions and prior presentation of the Resolution of the Ministry currently the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance that authorizes such operation.

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That subsections 1) and 3) of Article 5 of the BCB Statute provide that its Board of Directors has normative competence to issue specialized rules in the fields assigned by Law and technical competence for the formulation of policies and the application of instruments that allow it to fulfill its object.

That subsections 1) and 6) of Article 10 of the BCB Statute provide that the Board of Directors has the attributions to approve general decisions and issue the rules that are necessary for the BCB to fulfill the functions, competencies, and faculties assigned to it by the Law and to approve the policy and rules for the administration of International Reserves, as well as to carry out the monitoring of their execution.

That Paragraph I of Article 24 of said norm provides that the Resolutions and decisions of the Board of Directors are adopted by a simple majority of votes of its members present in a meeting, except in cases where Law No. 1670 or the BCB Statute require qualified majorities.

That Article 26 of the BCB Statute stipulates that the Board of Directors rules on matters within its competence through Resolutions. It may also do so through decisions that will be expressly recorded in the Minutes. Likewise, every draft Board Resolution must be motivated and justified by a technical report from the Management or Managements to which the subject matter of the Resolution corresponds and by a report from the Legal Affairs Management. These reports must be sent to the Board of Directors by the General Management with its recommendation.

That subsection 5) of Article 6 of the Regulation of the International Reserves Committee establishes, among others, as a function of the Committee to propose the treatment that will be applied to International Reserve investments in case of immediate liquidity requirement, to recommend to the BCB.

That Paragraph VI of Article 11 and Paragraph I of Article 18 of the Regulation for the Administration of International Reserves establish that the exit from the national customs territory of gold purchased locally to carry out investment operations will be approved by Board Resolution, establishing as an authorized investment operation the purchase of gold.

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That Article 25 of the Regulation for the Purchase of Gold in the Domestic Market Intended for the Strengthening of International Reserves, within the framework of Law No. 1503 of May 5, 2023, provides that the exit of gold from the national customs territory for the purpose of refining abroad will be approved by Board Resolution.

That the report BCB-GOI-SRES-DNI-INF-2025-74 concludes that, with the objective of optimizing the composition of Gold Reserves, it is necessary to carry out investment operations with the bars described in the report to obtain London Good Delivery bars, which will be deposited in the BCB's gold accounts in London. With London Good Delivery bars, the GOI can improve the returns of International Reserves through international financial operations with gold reserves, being able, among other things, to invest, deposit, and convert gold into foreign currencies. The GOI plans to carry out investment operations with STONEX, a company that will deposit the London Good Delivery bars produced in the BCB's gold accounts in London. For the foregoing, it recommends to the BCB Board of Directors to approve the exit from the national customs territory of 119 gold bars acquired in the domestic market with an approximate weight of 0.99 tons, of which an estimated 0.92 tons of fine gold is expected, destined for the United Arab Emirates to carry out investment operations.

That the report BCB-GAL-SANO-DLBCI-INF-2025-315 concludes on the viability of approving the exit from the national customs territory of 119 gold bars acquired in the domestic market with an approximate weight of 0.99 tons, of which an estimated 0.92 tons of fine gold is expected, destined for the United Arab Emirates to carry out investment operations, in accordance with the scope of Law No. 1503 on the Purchase of Gold Intended for the Strengthening of International Reserves, the Regulation for the Purchase of Gold in the Domestic Market Intended for the Strengthening of International Reserves, within the framework of Law No. 1503 of May 5, 2023, and the current regulations, making its approval by the BCB Board of Directors viable.

THEREFORE,

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF BOLIVIA

RESOLVES:

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Article 1.- Approve the exit from the national customs territory of 119 gold bars acquired in the domestic market with an approximate weight of 0.99 tons, of which an estimated 0.92 tons of fine gold is expected, destined for the United Arab Emirates to carry out investment operations.

Article 2.- Authorize the investment operations of the gold resulting from the investment operation indicated in the preceding Article, in accordance with what is established in the Regulation for the Administration of International Reserves.

Article 3.- The International Operations Management will process the Ministerial Resolution that authorizes the exit of gold from the national customs territory before the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance.

Article 4.- The Presidency and the General Management are in charge of the execution and compliance with this Resolution.

La Paz, September 23, 2025

SIGNED. ROGER EDWIN ROJAS ULO, Gumercindo Héctor Pino Guzmán, Miguel Angel Marañon Urquidi, Víctor Gonzalo Calisaya Gomez.

"2025 BICENTENNIAL OF BOLIVIA"

Board Resolution No. 116/2025