The Sixth Session of the 41^st National Assembly has begun. The first plenary sitting has started with parliamentary groups’ Declarations.

The National Assembly passed at second reading the Technical Requirements Towards Products Act, which transposes European directives and regulations. When a product represents a serious risk, the bodies exercising control over the market will advise the customers to stop using it, while the producer, the importer or the trader will be ordered to recall the product. When the risk can not be technically withheld, the product will have to be destroyed.  An Ordinance of the Council of Ministers will stipulate the order and measures to be applied by the market control bodies. The act specifies the groups of products to be monitored, covering also the separate details of a product that uses any kind of energy and for this matter will have to meet the requirements for ecological design and energy efficiency.

Starting with the Sixth session, the permanent parliamentary subcommittee on oversight of the use of special investigative means will be chaired by the MRF’s member of the parliament Hristo Biserov. The committee is presided on a rotational principle for two consecutive sessions by a representative of each parliamentary group.   Up to now the subcommittee has been chaired by the Blue Coalition MP Veselin Metodiev and Yavor Notev from the Ataka PG.

During its first plenary sitting the National Assembly has adopted at first reading amendments to the Employment Promotion Act. The agenda foresees also deliberations on the second reading of the Roads and the Civil Registration Acts.

In the course of this week’s sittings, the deputies are to adopt the Internal Rules of Procedure of the National Commission on Conflicts of Interest Prevention and Disclosure and on the election of the members of the National Assembly's quota by a secret ballot.

The Prime Minister of Bulgaria presented before the National Assembly the step of his government undertaken in support of the so called “Euro Plus” pact.  He explained that failure to express support on the part of Bulgaria would have made the European development of the country impossible.