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particular expertise of the employee. Every Bank employee knows where his/her post is in the matrix of job grades,
what career paths are available to him/her, and how his/her performance relates to his/her remuneration.
• flexibility – whenever it is necessary to recruit or retain an employee who is important to the Bank, or to manage
the risks arising from employee rotation, turnover, decisions may derogate from the Policy, without prejudice to
the fundamental principles of a fixed or variable remuneration component.
• neutrality in relation to gender, age, origin, nationality, religion, political opinion, social status, sexual orientation
– employees are paid equally for equal work or work of equal value, irrespective of their gender, age, origin,
nationality, religion, political opinion, social status or sexual orientation.
The Remuneration Policy applies to the Bank’s employees, as well as to members of the Bank’s Supervisory Board,
Management Board, Audit Committee who are not employees of the Bank, and to members of the Loan Committee and
the Risk Management Committee. In accordance with the Remuneration Policy, members of the Bank’s supervisory body
are paid a fixed remuneration and members of the management bodies are paid fixed and/or variable remuneration.
The Bank has no subsidiary or parent companies; therefore, employees do not receive any remuneration from companies
belonging to a group. No shares have been granted to the Bank’s employees.
Components of the Bank’s remuneration system:
• fixed remuneration, consisting of:
• a monthly salary set out in each employee’s employment contract (or a fixed component of their
remuneration);
• fringe benefits (long-term benefits, allowances, etc. not related to performance).
• variable remuneration, consisting of:
• annual variable component of remuneration;
• quarterly variable component of remuneration;
• cash bonuses to reward employees for individual and group work, performance, etc.
The fixed remuneration system is based on a matrix of job grades, grouping jobs into levels according to their importance
to the Bank’s activities. The job grade is determined by an assessment of the required competence, level of responsibility,
autonomy, creativity, complexity and conditions of the work.
Variable remuneration is awarded to employees for the achievement of set performance targets. The variable component
and the amount to be allocated are determined based on the results of the performance review and the timeframe over
which performance can be evaluated, whether quarterly or annually. The annual variable remuneration is granted only to
employees whose professional activities and/or decisions are likely to have a significant impact on the nature and
magnitude of the risks borne by the Bank. In any case, the variable remuneration awarded to an employee during a
reference period of one year may not exceed 100% of the amount of the fixed remuneration received by the employee
during the reference period of one year.
The Bank's remuneration policy stipulates that the variable part of the remuneration is either not allocated or must be
reduced or withheld based on the following criteria:
• The employee / committee member / Bank's board member has violated the Bank's internal regulations or external
legal requirements, and as a result of this violation, the Bank has incurred losses;
• The Bank's financial position has become unsustainable, its performance does not meet the targets set in the
business plan, or its operations are unprofitable;
• The employee's duration of employment with the Bank, or in the case of a committee / Bank board member, the
period during which they performed their committee / Bank board duties;
• The employee's individual performance results, the committee member's personal contribution to the committee's
activities, or in the case of a Bank board member – the performance results of the Bank's board.
The Annual Variable Remuneration Fund is formed after assessing the Bank’s performance, taking into account current
and future risks, the cost of capital employed and the cost of maintaining liquidity. The principles for calculating variable
remuneration are developed in such a way as to be consistent with the Bank’s strategy, objectives, values, long-term
interests of continuing operations, and to promote sound and effective risk management, to prevent conflicts of interest, to
ensure adherence to the Code of Ethics, and to ensure that the recipients are not incentivized to take excessive risks.
Employees may be paid other allowances/supplements to reward individual or group performance, significant project work,
or the performance of additional job functions (in addition to their job role). The provisions of the Remuneration Policy and
their implementation are detailed in the rules of the remuneration system, which set out the process of meeting the
objectives, the documents to be prepared and/or submitted, the provisions and criteria for granting the relevant type of
remuneration, and in other internal regulations of the Bank. The Bank does not have any internal processes or rules in
place allowing for the clawback of variable remuneration; therefore, such a possibility is not applied.
Individual components of the remuneration system may also be regulated by other internal regulations of the Bank.