Employers and trade unions began negotiations for national partnership agreement. That will be the first agreement of that kind, the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria’s (CITUB) chairman Zhelyazko Hristov announced. Representatives of the Trade Unions – Podkrepa and CITUB and of the employers’ organizations – Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce (BCC) and Bulgarian Chamber of Trade and Industry (BCTI) agreed that till the end of the year negotiations will conclude and the agreement will be signed. The national agreement will determine the general framework of the relations between employers and trade unions.