External Circular No. 8/2020: Receipt of Operation Request Procedures at the Central Bank of Bolivia

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BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA
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2020 FEB 28 PM 6:03

EXTERNAL CIRCULAR
GENERAL PROCESS
OFFICE

La Paz, February 28, 2020
CIEX No. 8/2020

FROM: GENERAL MANAGEMENT
ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT
TO: PUBLIC SECTOR ENTITIES
SUBJECT: RECEIPT OF OPERATION REQUEST PROCEDURES AT THE BCB

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) announces that starting March 4, 2020, public entities conducting operation request procedures must comply with the following provisions:

1. Receipt of Operation Request Procedures Operation 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 Limit 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 Operation Request Procedures Operation Request Procedures must bear authorized signatures that have been previously accredited with the BCB. Requests with signatures that do not match the records held by the BCB will not be accepted. Additionally, the submission time will be verified. BCB operational areas may reject requests when the submitted documentation contains errors, alterations, is incomplete, lacks sufficient funds, or does not meet the requirements and regulations established to carry out the operations.

3. Accreditation of Authorized Signatures
Accreditation Requests (Registration or Cancellation, as applicable) will be made using the following Forms:

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

¹ Matrix table attached in Annex 1 of this Circular.

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• Form. 2860-006 Request for Cancellation of External Authorized Signatures

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 signatory signatures that are registered as active in another entity or in another position within the same entity will not be accepted; therefore, the corresponding cancellation must be previously requested with the BCB.

Attention notes are not required for the Accreditation procedure.

4. Receipt of Digital Procedures
In compliance with the Institutional E-Government Plan of the Central Bank of Bolivia, approved by R.D. No. 078/2018 of June 26, 2018, documents signed digitally will be received and processed. To subscribe to this procedure modality, the Highest Executive Authorities of the Entities requiring the sending of digital procedures must formally communicate the email address from which the messages with the digital procedures will be sent.

External Circular CIEX No. 33/2019 of May 31, 2019 is hereby repealed.

Sincerely,

[Signature]
GASTON ELIAS CORDERO CRESPO
ADMINISTRATION MANAGER
BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA

[Signature]
JAIME VALENCIA VALENCIA
GENERAL MANAGER
BANCO CENTRAL DE BOLIVIA

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ANNEX 1

LIMIT SCHEDULE FOR PROCESSING PUBLIC SECTOR OPERATIONS ON THE SAME DAY

No.	TYPE OF OPERATION	LIMIT RECEIPT TIME
1	Foreign currency transfer abroad	12:00
2	Credit to current and reserve accounts of financial entities	16:30
3	Credit to fiscal current accounts at Banco Unión	18:00
4	Transfers to and from Special Accounts	18:00
5	Transfer to and from other accounts of the MEFP	18:00
6	Payment of external public debt with a value date subsequent to the transaction date	18:00
7	Debit in MEFP accounts for payment upon maturity of its Marketable Securities	18:00
8	Disbursements of External Debt	18:00
9	Opening of Letters of Credit	18:00
10	Periodic collection operations (or their suspension) with 1 day's advance notice	18:00
11	Payment of commissions to the BCB	16:30
12	Instructions for automatic debit by the MEFP in case of non-compliance with Intergovernmental Agreements or Conventions for the execution of Concurrent Plans, Programs, or Projects.	18:00
13	Payment orders from the MEFP to Autonomous Territorial Entities, their Decentralized and Concentrated Entities and Public Enterprises, and Public Universities.	18:00

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