Czech cbank in non-policy mtg, calls news briefing

...decisions on the agenda, a CNB spokeswoman said in a brief statement.

But the CNB called a news conference at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT) on planned changes in communication on monetary policy issues.

The CNB, a pioneer of inflation targeting in post-Communist central Europe, has been considering giving markets more insight into its thinking on interest rates.

CNB officials have told Reuters they may join the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Norway's Norges Bank and Sweden's Riksbank in revealing the bank's outlook for interest rates as a signal on future policy.

Policymakers held a meeting earlier in March to examine ways of fine tuning communication with markets.

Interest rates are not due to be reviewed until a monthly policy session on March 29, with markets betting any interest rate increase will not come until the second half of 2007, after 75 basis points worth of rate hikes in the past year and a half.