Fees and contributions
Fees of supervised entities
Subject to Article 41(1) of the Act No. 747/2004 Coll. on financial market supervision and on amendments to certain laws, as amended (hereinafter the "Supervision Act"), fees shall be paid to the National Bank of Slovakia, if acts and proceedings of the National Bank of Slovakia are taken under the Supervision Act or separate laws within supervision exercised over the supervised entities on the basis of:
a. an application for
1. grant of permission or license,
2. extension or other change of the granted permission or license,
3. grant of consent or prior consent,
4. change of the granted consent or prior consent,
5. approval of an act, prospectus, or other document,
b. appeal against the first instance decision on the application under subparagraph a),
c. an application for issuance of a duplicate of the permit, a duplicate of the license, a duplicate of the approval, a duplicate of the consent, a duplicate of the prior consent, or a duplicate of other decision of the National Bank of Slovakia,
d. making a copy of minutes or other deed from file,
e. an act under a separate law.
The amount of the relevant fees is governed by the Decree of Národná banka Slovenska of 14 December 2010 No. 19/2010 on fees for acts performed by Národná banka Slovenska (hereinafter the "Decree").
The fees shall be credited to the account no. 2516/0720.
The fees shall be paid by transfer or deposit of funds. A transfer order used for payment of the fees shall contain the following identification data:
a) variable symbol, being:
1. in the case of a natural person, his birth registration number (omitting the oblique) or, where no birth registration number has been assigned, his date of birth in the format year, month, day (YYYYMMDD), or
2. in the case of a legal person, its company registration number in Slovakia (IČO), or in the case of non-resident legal person not assigned an IČO, a comparable identifier;
b) specific symbol - the specific code in accordance with the Annex to the Decree;
c) payment purpose symbol - 0308.
For unambiguous identification of incoming payments in the National Bank of Slovakia is required for the payment consistently fill variable symbol and specific symbol.
The fee shall become chargeable when an application leading to a chargeable act is filed. The payer shall pay the fee within a period of five working days after the application filing date at the latest.
Each fee shall be paid separately. The payer shall present a payment receipt to the National Bank of Slovakia as soon as the fee is paid, but not later than prior to the expiry of the period for adjudicating on the application.
If the National Bank of Slovakia finds out that the fee was paid by an entity that was not required to pay it, that the paid fee does not contain the defined identification data which are necessary for identification of the purpose of the fee or its payer, that the payer paid a higher fee, or that the payer paid only a part of the fee and the proceeding was discontinued validly for the failed payment of the outstanding portion of the fee, the National Bank of Slovakia shall refund the paid fee or its part within a period of 30 calendar days from the date of detection of its obligation to refund the fee or its part.
The fee, its part, or the overpaid fee shall not be refunded, if the sum to be refunded is lower than EUR 3.32.
Information on fees for carrying out a professional examination:
Fees for carrying out the actuarial professional examination (only in Slovak language)
Fees for carrying out the professional examination and professional examination leading to a certificate in accordance with the Act No. 186/2009 Coll. (only in Slovak language)
Contributions of supervised entities
Subject to Article 40(1) of the Supervision Act, the supervised entity shall pay annual contributions to the National Bank of Slovakia in the amount determined in the Decision of the National Bank of Slovakia of 6 November 2011 No. 8/2011 on determination of annual contributions of supervised financial market entities for the year 2012 (only in Slovak language).
The contributions shall be credited to the account no. 2508/0720.
Legislation:
Decrees
Decisions
Update: December 28, 2011