Popular Bulgarian brands of yoghurt, yellow cheese, lyutenitsa, cheese etc. will receive European protection within 2 – 3 months. Legislative changes will be voted then for trademarks and geographical indications, so the national protection of the products will drop. Those amendments were actually due 9 years ago, in order for those foods to enter a European register, keeping their original Bulgarian names. As the authorities in charge didn’t inform the Bulgarian producers for the criteria of the European register, now the state had urgent negotiations with Brussels for keeping the rights for producing Bulgarian foods. Entities from other EU member-states will have to mark their production with a label, pointing at the Bulgarian origin.
The head of the regular mission of the International Monetary Fund in Bulgaria, Jean-Francois Dauphin, has presented the results of the review of the Bulgarian economy and financial system . The fund's mission began on March 6 and ends today...
Monthly inflation was 0.3 per cent in February, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said. Bulgaria's annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded inflation of 3.3 per cent in February, down from 3.8 per cent in the previous month. It was the 14th..
Bulgaria's gross domestic product grew by 1.8 per cent to BGN 183.7 billion (EUR 93.9 billion) last year, according to preliminary data released by the National Statistical Institute. One person accounts for BGN 28 516 (EUR 14 580) of the total...
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