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The regular comprehensive evaluation of Primary Dealers is carried out on the basis of the specified quantitative criteria.

• Source: MoF, Debt and Financial Assets Management Department
• Published: 30.07.2010

The Czech economy came out of recession a year ago and has been increasing its performance since the third quarter of 2009. Recovery nevertheless remains fragile and future development is still encumbered with considerable risks related especially with external environment.

Macroeconomic forecasts are prepared by the Financial Policy Department of the Czech Ministry of Finance with quarterly periodicity. It contains a forecast for current and following years and for some indicators an outlook for further 2 years. As a rule, they are published in the second half of the first month of each quarter.

• Macroeconomic forecasts particularly includes a table of fiscal developments in 2004 - 2009.

The Ministry of Finance submits the twenty second Debt Portfolio Management Quarterly Review to present the underlying debt portfolio risk management measures and performance with respect to the planned annual financing programme and achieving the medium-term strategic targets of debt management policy. For the year 2010, these targets were quantified by the Financing and Debt Management Strategy for 2010 released on 3 December 2009 and based on the Finance Minister’s decision. The Strategy specifies operating space of the asset and liability management trough issuance activity, financial investment and active operations of MoF on secondary market of government bonds and financial derivatives.

• Published on July 08, 2010 by Funding & Portfolio Management, Ministry of Finance

The Ministry of Finance publishes tables concerning the level and development of the central government debt for 1st quarter 2010 under the methodology of IMF. The tables facilitate to analyze the debt under following basic criterions:

• Central Government Debt by Type of Instrument
• Central Government Debt by Maturity
• Central Government Debt by Type of Holder

The Ministry of Finance also offers data on state guarantees and time series of the development of the central government debt:

• Debt Guaranteed by the Central Government
• Development of the Central Government Debt

Data concerning the level and development of the central government debt are available in the summary table as well:

• Fiscal Data for the Czech Republic - Central Government Debt

• Issuance Calendar of Treasury Bonds for 3rd Quarter 2010 
• Issuance Calendar of Treasury Bills for 3rd Quarter 2010

Issuance calendars results from Funding and Debt Management Strategy for 2010.

Macroeconomic frameworks of the State Budget and Budgetary Outlook and MoF forecasts are regularly compared with results of macroeconomic indicators survey among important relevant institutions (the so-called Colloquium), last round of which took place in May 2010. Outcomes of the 29th round of survey are based on forecasts of 15 domestic institutions (Cyrrus, CNB, Česká spořitelna, ČSOB, Czech Chamber of Commerce, Komerční banka, MoF, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Patria, PPF, Raiffeisen, Union of Czech and Moravian Production Co-operatives, UniCredit, Wood & Company). To make the survey more representative, forecasts of two international institutions were added (European Commission, IMF).

The Colloquium’s aim was to get an idea on opinions regarding assumed development of our economy and to assess jointly key tendencies within the horizon of years 2010 through 2013, with years 2012 and 2013 seen as indicative outlook. The key indicators and current MoF forecast are summed up in Tables 1 and 2.

In general it can be summed up that, with minor exceptions, MoF forecasts do not differ considerably from average of other institutions’ forecasts.

Tables and graphs

• Source: MF - Survey of macroeconomic forecasts - May 2010, published 05/2010, for download in PDF format

On 12th May 2010, the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic arranged traditional meeting with delegates of legal entities, which contributed to the national budget the most significant way in 2009.

• Source: MOF - Czech Tax Administration , published 20.05.2010

The regular comprehensive evaluation of Primary Dealers is carried out on the basis of the specified quantitative criteria.

• Source: MoF, Debt and Financial Assets Management Department
• Published: 30.04.2010

Macroeconomic forecasts are prepared by the Financial Policy Department of the Czech Ministry of Finance with quarterly periodicity. It contains a forecast for current and following years and for some indicators an outlook for further 2 years. As a rule, they are published in the second half of the first month of each quarter.

• Press release – (April 2010)
  

• Issuance Calendar of Treasury Bills for 2nd Quarter 2010 - updated
  Ministry of Finance publishes  updated T–Bills Issuance Calendar for the 2nd  quarter on 23rd April 2010. The reason for this adjustment is cash management performance of the state treasury in a short term period.

Issuance calendars results from Funding and Debt Management Strategy for 2010.

The Ministry of Finance submits the twenty first Debt Portfolio Management Quarterly Review to present the underlying debt portfolio risk management measures and performance with respect to the planned annual financing programme and achieving the medium-term strategic targets of debt management policy. For the year 2010, these targets were quantified by the Financing and Debt Management Strategy for 2010 released on 3 December 2009 and based on the Finance Minister’s decision. The Strategy specifies operating space of the asset and liability management trough issuance activity, financial investment and active operations of MoF on secondary market of government bonds and financial derivatives.

• Published on April 08, 2010 by Funding & Portfolio Management, Ministry of Finance

The Ministry of Finance publishes tables concerning the level and development of the central government debt for 4th quarter 2009 under the methodology of IMF. The tables facilitate to analyze the debt under following basic criterions:

• Central Government Debt by Type of Instrument 
• Central Government Debt by Maturity 
• Central Government Debt by Type of Holder

The Ministry of Finance also offers data on state guarantees and time series of the development of the central government debt:

• Debt Guaranteed by the Central Government  
• Development of the Central Government Debt 

Data concerning the level and development of the central government debt are available in the summary table as well:

• Fiscal Data for the Czech Republic - Central Government Debt 

• Issuance Calendar of Treasury Bonds for 2nd Quarter 2010
• Issuance Calendar of Treasury Bills for 2nd Quarter 2010

Issuance calendars results from Funding and Debt Management Strategy for 2010.

On 8 December 2009, the European Investment Bank (the “EIB”) and the Czech Republic acting through the Ministry of Finance (the “Issuer”) entered into a Funding Agreement whereby the Czech Republic agreed to make available to the EIB and the EIB agreed to consider purchasing Czech Republic Treasury Bonds issued from time to time by the Issuer, in order to part-finance a wide range of measures to restore infrastructure in four affected Czech river basins after the floods of June and July 2009 (the “Flood Damage Reconstruction 2009 Funding Agreement”). >> details