2. GEOGRAPHICAL FACTS:
Located in southern Europe, situated in Eastern Balkan Peninsula.
Mountainous country surrounded by Greece, Macedonia, Romania,
Serbia, and the Black Sea.
Strategic access to the key routes of Middle East & Europe.
Continental climate with the cold winters & warm summer
Balkan mountain divides the territority in Danube & Tharcian Plain
along with narrow coastal strip near blacksea.
3. • POLITICAL :
Rights
31
representative
MP’s
4 yr term,240
deputies
Unicameral
National
assembly
Parliament,
209 members
Prime minister-
Head of
Ministery &
Govt.
Govt. &
Councils
President, 5yr.
term
Head of State
Commander in
chief
4. Parliamentary Republic system ; rights over Govt. &
Ministery
5 yr. term of President represnting as a head of state, &
Commander in chief.
Prime Minister leading the council of Ministers heading
various agencies of government by members of ruling
party.
An independent Supreme Administrative System/Court
with 25 council members having a 5yr term.
President
Mr.
Rumen
Radev
Elected on
13 may
2016
Prime
minister
Mr.
Boyko
Borisov
Elected on
4 may
2017
BSP
BLUE
COALITION
GERB
6. 82%
14%
4%
% Population out
of 6.99 million
2017-18
Christianity
Islam
Religiously Unaffiliated
0
20
40
60
80
100
2014 2015 2016 2017
Services 58.69 58.2 57.8 58.34
Industry 23.56 24.09 24.43 24.52
Agriculture 4.57 4.14 4.05 3.74
%
Occupation Sector %
7. SOCIO-CULTURAL :
Majority, Ethnic Bulgarians belonging to Christian
Orthodox culture.
Unusual & long standing social customs with heritage in
tradition of music & architecture.
Bulgarian: “ the first written slavic language” with 12
million speakers.
Festival celebrations like St. Lazar’s day, Nestinarstvo- fire
dancing ritual ,Rose festival in Kazanlak, Kukeri festival
also being part of Tourist attractions.
8. LEGAL:
Regional development, Poads act , Spatial development
act,
Labour legislation favouring labours
Laws applicable in Consumer protection, Distance
provision of financial services,Protection of personal data,
E- commerce.
SUPREME COURT
COUNCIL
REGIONAL
COURTS
DISTRICT COURT
9. TECHNOLOGY
Expansion of portfolio of ‘online financial services.
RFID and NFC technology implemented in contactless
payments.
Extensive E-commerce internet network distributed with
max. usage.
Bulgaria claimed the third highest speed of Internet -
1,611KBps8 (Pando Networks, 2011). The high speed of
Internet could be assumed as a driver for internet use and
ICT RTDI development.
10. ENVIRONMENTAL
Enhance producer responsibility scheme EPR for waste
management.
At the end of 2015 there were 1,012 protected areas,
covering 584,530 ha, with extensive 52.6% land areas in
agricultural use and under forest.
NDP programme BG 2020 strenghthening the legal
framework towards green economy.
Water pollution tax, WWTp, WMS has been sustaining the
green environment with the considerable reduction in
wastage achieving target efficiency.