regulation

Тези дни този аргумент някак спонтанно набира сила като критика на предложените промени в Закон за защита на конкуренцията (ЗКК) и Закон за защита на потребителите (ЗЗП), които целят да адресират дисбалансите в търговията на дребно. Импликацията е, че понеже са ниски маржовете на печалба (не повече от 5% нетен …

От няколко дни наблюдаваме същинска медийна истерия около предложените промени в Закона за защита на конкуренцията. Разбира се, лобистите на бизнеса, който първо ще бъде засегнат от тези промени, имат своето право да ги оспорват икономически, но и трябва да имат почтеността да представят данни за твърденията си. Именно от …

Точно преди една година Съдът на ЕС (СЕС) се произнесе и потвърди досегашната дефиниция за „публичноправна организация“ в българското законодателство. В резултат на това европейското законодателство не изисква включване на частните лечебни заведения в обхвата на режима за обществени поръчки. Вместо да се вслушат в мъдрото решение на СЕС, Европейската комисия …

The ECB is silent about the BDB. We have sent a request for all documents on the case. As we have already written, Bulgaria has been a member of the Banking Union for 9 months now. A key element of the BS is the so-called Single Supervisory Mechanism. Supporters of the eurozone promised that banking supervision in the hands of the ECB would correct the problems in …

After making a clumsy attempt to protect the hotel business from AIRBNB through categorization, politicians are trying a new blow. Menda Stoyanova and Valeri Simeonov have proposed a patent tax to be imposed on apartments advertised on the online platform. The bloodthirsty passion of politicians to protect their convenient business interests is once again showing. They are offering all sorts of burdens for …

Direct state intervention in pricing is a traditional tool for solving economic or social problems caused by a sharp increase or decrease in prices. The economic past of Bulgaria during the period between the First and Second World Wars (1919-1939) reveals some typical practices of state pricing and their consequences. It was already …

Author: Martin Tarpev From January 1, 2019, the state made a gift to lower-skilled workers by increasing the minimum wage to 560 leva. Many people are accepting this measure with applause, which on a more abstract level seems normal. Who doesn't want to receive more money? Beyond rosy economic dreams …

One of the most frequently applied economic regulations is state intervention in pricing. This is easily explained. The increase in prices of essential goods creates social tension. The authorities try to bring calm by subjecting prices to administrative control. It is believed that this helps the poor and the disadvantaged. Elementary economic …

Anyone who has been interested in the history of Bulgarian art knows that the years of the totalitarian communist regime are those in which art was most centralized, controlled and limited artists within certain limits. The period from 1944 to 1989 (very roughly, since things are a little more complicated) are years in which …

On 31.10.2018, the National Assembly (“NA”)[i] submitted a Bill to supplement the Consumer Protection Act from a group of MPs from the United Patriots group, which gained wide popularity on social networks under the name “The Law on Surcharges”. Following Valeri Simeonov’s statements about children with disabilities and their mothers …