The construction of AEC "Belene" will commence in the beginning of March 2009. This was agreed upon by the Economy Minister Petar Dimitrov and the Russian vice Premier Sergey Sobyanin. They we co-chairs of the 12th session of the intergovernmental commission for economic and science-technical cooperation, whose sessions took place yesterday and today in Sofia. още »

The total industrial production in Bulgaria has decreased by 13,1 percent in August compared to the previous month, the National statistics institute announced. A decrease has been registered in the production and casting of metals by 30,8 percent, the production of metal works without machines and equipment and the production of machines, equipment and household appliances - by 18,5 percent, the production of chemical products - by 15,8 percent. още »

There is a danger that Bulgaria loses 18 million Euro from the operative programme "Fishery", because of the lack of legal fishery ports. This was forecasted by the Association of producers of fish products "BG Fish".An important prerequisite for the acquisition of the money from the programme is the registration of fishery ports, which has not been done up to now, the executive director of the association Yordan Gospodinov claims, cited by Radio Varna. още »

Conference on the “Condition and perspectives for the real estate market in Bulgaria” starts today, informed BNR. According to a research in the next 5 years around 65 thousand new homes will be built in Sofia. Around 30 thousand more will be constructed during the same period in the biggest Bulgarian towns. The real estate market, however, is among the most affected by the financial crisis, which burst in the last months. още »

Bulgaria moves three places ahead - from 79th to 76th position in the classification for global competitiveness for 2008-2009 at the World economic forum. This was announced by the Center for economic development (CED) - official partner of the Forum, cited by Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.The report for global competitiveness is a study of the state of economies in over 130 countries in the world. още »

The tax on real estate may increase by 50% from next year. This will become reality if the municipalities continue to determine the tax in the same way - on the basis of the tax evaluation of real estate, BNR announces.The Ministry of Finances offers from next year tax evaluation to increase by 50%. So that the real estate tax does not increase automatically, as well as other taxes on acquiring real estate, financiers offer that municipalities change the formula for calculation as the weight of the tax assessment is decreased. още »

Commercial areas in Varna have increased by over 30% for the first half of 2008. Only by opening Varna Mall in June their size has increased by 33 000 square meters. New stores, which opened in this period, possess over 40 000 square meters total. This constitutes almost one third of the completed commercial areas in the entire country, whose amount reaches 138 000 square meters, "Narodno delo" writes. още »

The approved SAPARD projects are 3509 as their total investment value is 2,8 billion levs. The approved subsidy for them is 1,4 billion levs, BNR announced.The participants in the 15th regular session of the Committee for observation in SAPARD, which takes place twice a year, were informed of this result.The amount of work done by the SAPARD agency and the Ministry of Agriculture in the last months is huge, regarding the control exerted in the application of the programme as well as the strengthening of the administrative capacity, Vice Premier Meglena Plugchieva emphasized. още »

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