Measure of the National Bank of Slovakia No. 1/2026 of 30 March 2026, amending and supplementing Measure No. 5/2018 on the professional examination for financial intermediation and advice

Issue 10/2026 Bulletin of the NBS – NBS Measure No. 1/2026 1 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 1/2026 MEASURE of the National Bank of Slovakia of 30 March 2026, amending and supplementing the Measure of the National Bank of Slovakia of 13 February 2018 No. 5/2018 on the professional examination and the professional examination with a certificate for providing financial intermediation and financial advice as amended by subsequent regulations

The National Bank of Slovakia, pursuant to Section 22(5) of Act No. 186/2009 Coll. on Financial Intermediation and Financial Advice and on Amendment and Supplement of Certain Laws, as amended by Act No. 282/2017 Coll., hereby provides:

Article I

The Measure of the National Bank of Slovakia of 13 February 2018 No. 5/2018 on the professional examination and the professional examination with a certificate for providing financial intermediation and financial advice (Notification No. 41/2018 Coll.), as amended by the Measure of 26 May 2020 No. 1/2020 (Notification No. 142/2020 Coll.), the Measure of 5 September 2022 No. 6/2022 (Notification No. 342/2022 Coll.) and the Measure of 28 February 2023 No. 2/2023 (Notification No. 86/2023 Coll.), is amended and supplemented as follows:

1. At the end of Section 1(2), a semicolon and the following words are added: "if the professional examination is administered by a legal person authorized by the National Bank of Slovakia pursuant to Section 22(2) of the Act, the professional examination may also be conducted in a language other than the state language."

2. In Section 1(4), a new letter e) is inserted after letter d), which reads:
   "e) the language in which the professional examination may be conducted,".
   Letters e) to h) currently are designated as letters f) to i).

3. Section 2(4) reads:
   "(4) Questions for the written part of the professional examination or the professional examination with a certificate in the state language are published no later than ten days before the date of the professional examination or the professional examination with a certificate on the website of the National Bank of Slovakia; questions for the written part of the professional examination in a language other than the state language are published no later than ten days before the date of the professional examination on the website of the legal person authorized by the National Bank of Slovakia pursuant to Section 22(2) of the Act."

4. Section 2 is supplemented by letter f), which reads:
   "f) the language pursuant to Section 1(4)(e) in which the applicant wishes to take the professional examination."

5. Section 3(1) reads:
   "(1) The fee for taking the professional examination in the state language is 50 euros per sector.
   The fee for taking the professional examination in a language other than the state language is 200 euros per sector."

6. In Section 3(4), the words "letter g)" are replaced by the words "letter h)".

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Article II

This Measure enters into force on 1 May 2026.

Peter Kažimír governor

in behalf
Dušan Keketi vicegovernor

Issuing unit: Department for Supervision of the Capital Market