Project title:

Institutional building of Bulgaria

Country:

Bulgaria

Overall project value (EUR): 131 572

Name of client:

Management System International (MSI)

Origin of funding:Management System International (MSI)

Dates (start/end):

January 2000 - August 2004

Name of partners:

ASME Bulgaria;

BIBA Bulgaria;

Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)

Detailed description of project:

Object: Bills and legislation related to the business environmentMonitoring debates at the Economic Policy Committee and Budget and Finance Committee of the Parliament.IME is the only NGO presented regularly on these committees on permanent basis. IME activities are oriented towards: analysis of the bills in the pipe-line and their effects on business and citizenship (especially bills affecting SMEs development), submission of position papers on pending hearing draft bills to the committee and dissemination of information. The public benefit of this activity is that through providing services to the economic and budget and finance committees, IME contributes to the improvement of the content of the bills in pipeline and enhance dialogue between the committee, businesses and expert community. The newsletter Economic Policy Review (EPR) was launched in the beginning of December 2000 as a weekly issue in Bulgarian and a monthly - in English. The newsletter is the first serious attempt to provide reviews on pending legislation, compliance with just passed and existing regulations, reviews on transparency, lobbing and RIA efforts, Bulgarian and foreign, comments on the business attitudes towards public governance, presentations of different web-sites and papers. EPR became an important source of independent analysis and comments in the press and contributes to deeper understanding of the tendencies in the economic policy.  It is one of the few, if not the only, economic policy newsletters (along with those of BIA and BCCI), which is being quoted (reprinted in portions) in the press, more often than the analogues.  Public-private dialogue. Monitoring effectiveness and potential issues regarding communications between the private sector and the government.

Type of services provided:

1. Policy Review
2. Providing regulation impact analysis of newly adopted legislation
3. Public-private dialogue
4. Preparing a weekly newsletter in Bulgarian and a monthly in English monitoring business environment
5. Institutional building