site.btaParliamentary Monitor: Friday
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Parliamentary
Monitor:
Friday
Sofia, February 11 (BTA) - At its plenary sitting on Friday, Bulgaria's National Assembly transacted business as follows:
- Adopted on first reading Government-proposed amendments to the Corporate Income Tax Act, transposing rules of an EU directive.
- Adopted conclusively revisions to the Value Added Tax Act, according to which food vouchers will attract to VAT in compliance with the requirements of an EU directive.
- Heard a declaration from There Is Such a People (TISP), read by MP Andrey Tchorbanov, in memory of Prof. Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Prize-winning French discoverer of the HIV virus, who died on February 8. Tchorbanov noted the virologist's role in freeing six Bulgarian medics from Libya, who were falsely charged with infecting children there with HIV virus during Muammar Gaddafi's regime. "Largely thanks to Montagnier's efforts, the Bulgarian medics were acquitted and released," the MP recalled, noting that the French professor took a public stance against the restrictive measures introduced against the spread of COVID-19.
Question time
Deputy Prime Minister and Economy and Industry Minister Korneliya Ninova: We do not intend to separate any of the subsidiaries of the State Consolidation Company (SCC) from it or dissolve any of them. The SCC has many subsidiaries, including VMZ Sopot, Kintex and Montagi. Their assets are a part of the SCC's capital, and the SCC has obtained loans from the Bulgarian Development Bank on that basis.
Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development and Urban Planning Minister Grozdan Karadjov: The Asparuhovo Bridge in Varna is currently in a safe operating condition and does not pose a danger to cars or pedestrians. Six of the bridge's eleven structural units were overhauled during the 2016-2020 period. The technical planning for major renovation of the rest of the bridge units will start in 2022-2023.
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The Vazrazhdane Party is preparing to stage a new protest against the green certificate requirements within ten days, the party's leader Kostadin Kostadinov said in Parliament, specifying that the date and form of the protest will be decided next week.
Kostadinov noted that his party will not agree to anything else but a lifting of the certificate requirement. RY/MT, KK/LG//
LG1723ES.115
115 POLITICS - PARLIAMENT - MONITOR ampl
Parliamentary
Monitor:
Friday
Sofia, February 11 (BTA) - At its plenary sitting on Friday, Bulgaria's National Assembly transacted business as follows:
- Adopted on first reading Government-proposed amendments to the Corporate Income Tax Act, transposing rules of an EU directive.
- Adopted conclusively revisions to the Value Added Tax Act, according to which food vouchers will attract to VAT in compliance with the requirements of an EU directive.
- Heard a declaration from There Is Such a People (TISP), read by MP Andrey Tchorbanov, in memory of Prof. Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Prize-winning French discoverer of the HIV virus, who died on February 8. Tchorbanov noted the virologist's role in freeing six Bulgarian medics from Libya, who were falsely charged with infecting children there with HIV virus during Muammar Gaddafi's regime. "Largely thanks to Montagnier's efforts, the Bulgarian medics were acquitted and released," the MP recalled, noting that the French professor took a public stance against the restrictive measures introduced against the spread of COVID-19.
Question time
Deputy Prime Minister and Economy and Industry Minister Korneliya Ninova: We do not intend to separate any of the subsidiaries of the State Consolidation Company (SCC) from it or dissolve any of them. The SCC has many subsidiaries, including VMZ Sopot, Kintex and Montagi. Their assets are a part of the SCC's capital, and the SCC has obtained loans from the Bulgarian Development Bank on that basis.
Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development and Urban Planning Minister Grozdan Karadjov: The Asparuhovo Bridge in Varna is currently in a safe operating condition and does not pose a danger to cars or pedestrians. Six of the bridge's eleven structural units were overhauled during the 2016-2020 period. The technical planning for major renovation of the rest of the bridge units will start in 2022-2023.
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The Vazrazhdane Party is preparing to stage a new protest against the green certificate requirements within ten days, the party's leader Kostadin Kostadinov said in Parliament, specifying that the date and form of the protest will be decided next week.
Kostadinov noted that his party will not agree to anything else but a lifting of the certificate requirement. RY/MT, KK/LG//
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