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The Minister of economy Bojidar Loukarsky, the Minister of regional development and public works, Lilyana Pavlova and the Executive Director of Sofia Tech Park, Elitsa Panayotova presented the newly opened Research technological park in Sofia to the government delegation from Turkmenistan led by Shamuhamet Durdiliev, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Turkmenistan. The delegation was visiting Bulgaria at the invitation of Minister Pavlova.

“Establishing the sectorial reconciliation commissions at CPC will help resolving the disputes between customers and traders out of court”. The Deputy Minister of economy Daniela Vezieva announced at the opening of round table on the topic “New reconciliation commissions – a mechanism for resolving disputes between customers and traders”, organized by the newspapers “24 chassa” and “Trud” together with the Customers Protection Commission /CPC/.

“We want OPIC to reach the Bulgarian business not only as a form of adoption funds but also as a factor to increase the competitiveness of the Bulgarian business. 24 projects amounting to more than BGN 26 million were successfully completed for the business companies in Lovech municipality under the Operational programme “Development of competitiveness of Bulgarian economy /OPDCBE / 2007-2014 “.

„Sofia Tеch Park is one of our most ambitious projects which will turn into a catalyst of the innovation processes in the country“. This was declared by the Minister of Economy Bozhidar Lukarski at the inauguration of an innovation forum „Innovation Exchange” in Sofia Tеch Park. The event was organized by the British Embassy in Bulgaria and gathered in the same place over 100 Bulgarian and 17 English companies from the sector of information technologies.

“The Bulgarian Government states its strong support to the Initiative for Partnership between China and the countries from Central and Eastern Europe. For us the most significant result of similar partnership would be the increase of the Chinese investments in Bulgaria and of our commodity exchange”.

The Chinese Company Nantong Sumu Biological Technology will build up a plant for sunflower oil in the industrial zone in Burgas. The investment intention was declared by signing the Memorandum for Cooperation between the Chinese Bio-Technological Company and National Company Industrial Zones EAD (JSC), which operate the zone in Burgas.

The Bulgarian enterprises start developing copper deposit and construction of hydro equipment in the Latin American country. “We are ready to open a new page in our economic relations with Cuba, which were discontinued in recent years.” This was the statement made by the Minister of Economy,BozhidarLukarsky,at the meetings with Cuban minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmierka Diaz and Minister of Industry Salvador Pedro Cruz during his visit in Havana, while heading the Bulgarian business delegation during the exhibition FIHAV 2015 on the CUBA EXPO.

Cuba wishes to import again Bulgarian food products, as well as to develop joint enterprises in food industry. This was stated by Cuba’s Minister of Food Industry Maria del Carmen Concepssion on a meeting with BojidarLukarski, Bulgarian Minister of Economy and the delegation accompanying him in Havana. The portfolio of business opportunities that Cuba proposes in this field was represented at the meeting.

“You need not turn your attention to Asia as Bulgaria is much closer to Germany and our country offers low taxes, as well as economic and financial stability. Take the chance to cooperate with us!” This was the message Mr Bozhidar Lukarski – Minister of Economy, directed at representatives of the German business at meetings with the German Economy Eastern Committee and the German Economy Union for Eastern Europe held today in Berlin.

The establishment of a unified electronic register between the National Revenue Agency, the Customs Agency, the Bulgarian Institute of Metrology (BIM) and the State Agency for Metrological and Technical Surveillance (SAMTS) is proposed by the Ministry of Economy (ME) as one of the measures offered by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov for the enhancement of the control over the quality of the fuels and the good working order of the measurement devices.