March 2010

• European and National parliaments bear common responsibility for the future of European citizens, EP President Jerzy Buzek declared, 03/03/2010
• Parliament has appointed Hristina Mitreva as the new head of the National Social Security Institute (NSSI), 05/03/2010
• National Assembly Chair sends a letter to President Georgi Parvanov, 06/03/2010
• National Assembly pays tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, 10/03/2010
• Lawmakers vote on freezing their salaries at December 2009 level, 10/03/2010
• Parliamentary delegation, led by National Assembly President Tsetska Tsacheva was on an official visit to the Russian Federation, 15/03/2010
• All foods containing GMO to have on their labels signs showing such content with visually twice larger font and in a different color than all other lettering stipulated in GMO Act passed by the National Assembly, 17/03/2010
• Amended GMOs Act keeps the ban on release and marketing of genetically modified tobacco, vine, rose oil, wheat and on all vegetable and fruit crops, 18/03/2010
• MPs vote in favor of imposing reduced sentences for pretrial investigation procedures cut short, 19/03/2010
• Parliament passes amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, 25/03/2010
• Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva has sent condolence letters to the chairmen of the Russian Federation’s Federation Council of the Federal Assembly and of the State Duma Sergei Mironov and Boris Gryzlov in connection with the terrorist attacks in Moscow, 29/03/2010
• Regulation of surrogate pregnancy in Bulgaria discussed at a round-table in the parliament, 30/03/2010
• Parliament disapproves motion to raise and press charges against President Georgi Parvanov, 31/03/2010