CIEX No. 33/2019: Receipt of Operational Request Procedures at the BCB

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La Paz, May 31, 2019 CIEX No. 33/2019 FROM: GENERAL MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT TO: PUBLIC SECTOR ENTITIES SUBJECT: RECEIPT OF OPERATIONAL REQUEST PROCEDURES AT THE BCB

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) announces that starting June 5, 2019, public entities carrying out operational request procedures must comply with the following provisions:

1. Receipt of Operational Request Procedures Operational Request Procedures will be received at the BCB through the Single Correspondence Window (VUC), on all business days from 08:30 to 18:30, in accordance with the Deadline Schedule for Processing Public Sector Operations on the same day¹. Furthermore, the procedures must be directed to the corresponding operational area.

2. Control of Authorized Signatures in Operational Request Procedures Operational Request Procedures must bear authorized signatures previously accredited with the BCB. Requests whose signatures do not match the records held by the BCB will not be accepted. Additionally, the submission time will be verified. The BCB's operational areas may reject requests when the submitted documentation contains errors, alterations, is incomplete, has insufficient funds, or does not meet the requirements and norms established to carry out the operations.

3. Accreditation of Authorized Signatures Accreditation requests (Registration or Deregistration, as applicable) will be carried out using the following Forms:

1 Attached matrix table in Annex 1 of this Circular.

• Form. 2860-005 Request for Registration of External Authorized Signatures
• Form. 2860-006 Request for Deregistration of External Authorized Signatures

The Requesting Entities must download the cited forms from the BCB website, complete the information, attach the requirements, and send them to the BCB through the VUC.

The forms and the registration instruction are published in electronic format on the BCB WEB Page at the address: https://www.bcb.gob.bo/firmasautorizadas

Requests for Accreditation of Signatories who are already registered in another entity or in another position within the same entity will not be accepted; therefore, the corresponding deregistration must be previously requested with the BCB.

Attention notes are not required for the Accreditation procedure.

External Circular SGDB No. 055/2014 of December 31, 2014, is hereby repealed.

Sincerely,

CACL/EGDB Attached is the cited material C.c. Archive

BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA ESTADO PLURINACIONAL DE BOLIVIA

ANNEX 1 DEADLINE SCHEDULE FOR PROCESSING PUBLIC SECTOR OPERATIONS ON THE SAME DAY

TYPE OF OPERATION | DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT Transfer of foreign currency abroad | 12:00 Credit to current and reserve accounts of financial entities | 18:00 Credit to fiscal current accounts at Banco Unión | 18:00 Transfers to and from Special Accounts | 18:00 Transfer to and from other accounts of the MEFP | 18:00 Payment of public external debt with a value date subsequent to the transaction date | 18:00 Debit in MEFP accounts for payment upon maturity of its Securities | 18:00 Disbursements of External Debt | 18:00 Opening of Letters of Credit | 18:00 Periodic collection operations (or their suspension) with 1 day's advance notice | 18:00 Payment of commissions to the BCB | 18:00