Albania: Foreign exchange regime
Wolf Theiss, Tirana |
July 01, 2006
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Wolf Theiss (Albania)
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The Bank of Albania (BoA) formulates, adopts and implements the foreign exchange policy of Albania and maintains a supervisory role in foreign exchange activities in accordance with Law 8269 of December 23 1997 (On the Bank of Albania), Law 8365 July 2 1998 (On banks in the Republic of Albania) and the Regulation on Foreign Exchange Activities 101 of December 10 2003 (FX Regulation).
As a general rule, the Banking Law does not impose any restrictions on the purchase, sale, holding, or transfer of monetary foreign exchanges. However, the Law on the BoA authorizes it to temporarily restrict the purchase, sale, holding, or transfer of foreign exchanges if the BoA so decides, intending to preserve the foreign exchange rate or its official reserves. In practice, the BoA has not used such measures in an overly restrictive manner and aims to achieve European standards for banking systems.
Foreign exchange transactions
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