February 2014

• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov meets with heads of diplomatic missions, accredited to Sofia - presents priorities of the National Assembly in 2014, 03/02/2014
• Parliament enacts internship contracts for young people with secondary or university education not older than 29 years, 06/02/2014
• Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee supports amendments to the Consumer Credit Act envisaging abolition of the penalty tax for early payment of loans, 06/02/2014
• National Program for Primary Prophylactic of Cervical Cancer in Bulgaria for the period 2012-2016 increases budget for 2014 by BGN 2, 5 M, 06/02/2014
• Ad-hoc committee on holding discussions and submitting draft of new Election Code agrees with the proposal of the Public Council, working together with the committee, for the voting paper to contain only a list of party names, not the names of individual candidates, 07/02/2014
• National Assembly Vice President Maya Manolova and Sergey Stanishev, Chairman of the Coalition for Bulgaria parliamentary group present to ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions from EU member countries, countries in the process of association, USA and Russia the new Election Code draft, 10/02/2014
• Parliament rejects no confidence motion against Plamen Oresharski’s Government, 12/02/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov receives Japan’s Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Takao Makino, 12/02/2014
• Central Electoral Commission to have 19 members elected in an open procedure, 13/02/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov sends condolatory address to the family, the relatives and friends of Prof. Nikolay Vasilev, 13/02/2014
• Lawmakers decide election campaigns to be held in Bulgarian language, 14/02/2014
• Legislative amendments allow tax payers to determine for themselves which liability to pay off first, 17/02/2014
• Strengthening of the economic relations and increase of the trade between Bulgaria and Croatia - topics discussed at the meeting between National Assembly President, Mihail Mikov and the Croatian Speaker of Parliament, Josip Leko, 17/02/2014
• National Assembly honors with a minute of silence the memory of Coalition for Bulgaria lawmaker Dimcho Mihalevski, 18/02/2014
• National Assembly adopts Declaration with respect to the escalation of tensions on ethnic, religious and political grounds, 19/02/2014
• Let’s demonstrate that we are worthy of the legacy of the Apostle, urged the President of the National Assembly, Mihail Mikov, on occasion of the 141 st anniversary of the death of Vasil Levski, 19/02/2014
• Elections of people’s representatives to be held according to a proportional system of voting with ballots of parties, coalitions and initiative committees registered in multi-mandate constituencies, 20/02/2014
• Lawmakers vote 5 % preference threshold for candidates of parties and coalitions in elections for Members of the European Parliament, 21/02/2014
• National Assembly passes the new Election Code, 21/02/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov has sent condolences on the death of actor Dzhoko Rosich, 22/02/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu, 27/02/2014