Industrial Association Complains of Excessive Legislative Activity in Parliament

Sofia, March 17 (BTA) - In 83 workdays between October 27, 2014
and March 10, 2015, MPs have tabled 166 bills in Parliament, or
an average two bills a day. With the exception of 14
ratifications and four specific bills, 148 of these are included
 in the list of interests of the Bulgarian Industrial
Association (BIA) and its members (industrialists and
employers), a BIA survey shows. The survey was focused on the
legislative activity of the 43rd and was made public Tuesday.

 The result of this parliamentary activity is instability and
unpredictability not only in the political, but also in the
industrial (and consequently the social) environment, BIA
commented.

 Thirty bills (or one-fifth) were related to revisions of acting
 legislation more than once. The list is topped by the Penal
Code (six bills), followed by the Labour Code, the Social
Insurance Code, the Code of Civil Procedure and the Natural
Persons Income Tax Act (five bills each). Then there are the
Road Traffic Act, the Academia in Bulgaria Act and the Forest
Act (four bills each), the VAT Act, the Energy Act, the Interior
 Ministry Act and the Direct Citizen Participation in State and
Local Government Act (three bills each), as well as another 18
laws with two bills for revisions each.

 Ataka MPs have been most active in tabling bills (24 bills).
The Council of Ministers, the Bulgarian Socialist Party - Left
Bulgaria and the Reformist Bloc parliamentary groups have tabled
 15 bills each, and GERB and the Patriotic Front have tabled ten
 bills each. Nine bills were tabled by Movement for Rights and
Freedoms MPs. The MPs of the Bulgarian Democratic Centre and ABV
 have only participated in joint tabling of two bills, without
independent motions.

 The total number of tabled bills is smaller than the number of
MPs involved because some of them were tabled by representatives
 of several parliamentary groups.