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Bulgaria's socialist-led government is expected to adopt a total of 11 new laws by the end of 2013, according to the program of the Cabinet.
The government adopted its program by end-2013 at a regular sitting on Wednesday.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski is to work on 83 bills, including 8 ratifications of international agreements, memoranda and treaties and 11 bills of new laws, the remaining part being bills on amending and supplementing existing laws, according to the government's press office.
Bills on tourism, on climate change, on plant protection are on the calendar for consideration in summer, while a new Interior Ministry Act and a bill on industrial property representatives are to be reviewed in September.
The bills on the state budget and the budgets of the Public Social Security and the National Health Insurance Fund for 2014, as well as proposals for amendments to tax laws, are to be discussed by the government in September or October.
Bills on school and pre-school education, on the preservation of agricultural and hydromeliorative property, and on branch organizations in agriculture, are to be drafted by end-2013.
The government's program also includes bills on amending and supplementing the Public Procurement Act, the Law on Pharmaceutical Products in Human Medicine, the Law on Electronic Communications, the Roads Act, the Water Act, the Defense and Armed Forces Act, the Youth Act, the Customs Agency Act, the Law on Protection of Agricultural Land, the Vocational Education and Training Act, the Excise Duties and Tax Warehouses Act, the Law on Support of Agricultural Producers, etc.
Apart from the legal program, the Cabinet's governing program was also approved on Wednesday.
Without going into details about the paper, the media statement says that that it contains concrete measures and plans in three main areas – economic recovery and encouraging entrepreneurship, employment, solidarity and social justice, and stabilizing statehood.
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