May 2020

• The Committee on Legal Affairs will vote the amendments to the Health Act related to the expiry of the state of emergency in the country on 13 May at second reading., 11/05/2020
• The National Assembly adopted at second reading the amendments of the Health Act related to the end of the state of emergency declared in the country, 12/05/2020
• DPS's Yordan Tsonev headed the Temporary Committee on the Control of the Expenditure of Public Funds to Overcome the Consequences of the Dissemination of COVID-19, 14/05/2020
• The Parliament ratified the Sixth Additional Protocol to the Agreement on the Multinational Peace Force South-Eastern Europe, 15/05/2020
• The National Assembly adopted a declaration against the planned division of the Bolhrad region in Ukraine, 20/05/2020
• The National Assembly elected Diana Kovacheva as Ombudsman, 21/05/2020
• The amendments to the Value Added Tax Act adopted at first reading by the National Assembly provide that the VAT rate for restaurants and books shall be reduced to 9 percent, 22/05/2020
• The Parliament adopted at second reading the new Food Law without debate. The draft was approved at first reading at the end of October 2017, 27/05/2020
• The Parliament adopted the Report on the Activities of the Commission for Counteracting Corruption and for Seizure of Illegally Acquired Property and the Report on the State of Defence and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria for 2019, 28/05/2020
• The Parliament ratified an agreement with the World Bank on science and education advisory services, 29/05/2020