Because of the slowly registrations in the Central Register for NGOs in Public Benefit with the Ministry of Justice lately and the signals from NGOs that the reason for that is the described additional economic activity in their founding documents, under art. 3 (3) form the Law on Non-Profit Legal Entities, BCNL prepared a legal statement for the legal possibility for performing additional economic activity as well as the requirements for that.

Today the Law on the State Budget of Republic of Bulgaria for 2010was published in the SG 99. The total sum of the budget subsidies for NGOs is 10 612 600 BGN and it is pointed out in art. 9 and Appendix 4 form the law. 9 812 260 BGN from them will be distributed among 26 organizations, named in the Appendix. Only 800 000 BGN will be provided to NGOs in public benefit, registered in the Central Register with the Ministry of Justice, on a competition base in order to fund their public benefit projects.

Bureau “Conviction” has changed its address. The new office is situated at bul.”Patriarch Evtimii” №2, the Ex-Notary office. Working hours: 09:00-17:00.

Beginning in December 2009, within the project “NGOs and local authorities: Partnership without conflict of interests”, funded by MATRA/KAP Program of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, BCNL legal experts provide consultations for municipalities and NGOs on the issues related to avoiding the conflict of interests.

Recently a problem with court registration of changes, accepted by the supreme body of an NGO was determined. The court required from NGOs to present documents that prove that the order for calling the meeting of the supreme body has been followed and refused to enter the changes until such evidence were submitted.

The 29 November 2009 is the final date on which candidates from Georgia can send their application documents in order to participate in the Black Sea Fellowship Program, organized by the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law, with the financial support of the East-East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program of the Open Society Institute.

In the beginning of 2009, the Administrative court – Sofia city gave judgment the Central Register (CR) for NGOs in public benefit with the Ministry of Justice (MJ) shall not deny registration when NGOs had missed the following terms:

On November 2 2009 the application procedure for participating in the Black Sea Fellowship Program for the last one Black Sea country – Georgia was opened.

The Bulgarian Center for Not-for-profit Law starts in October a new project “NGOs and local authorities: Partnership without conflict of interests”, funded by MATRA/KAP Program of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

In the middle of September 2009 the application procedure for participating in the Black Sea Fellowship Program for the seventh Black Sea country – Moldova has been opened.