DRAFT OF NEW ORDINANCE ON INTEGRATION OF FOREIGNERS IN BULGARIA PUBLISHED

The draft was prepared by an interagency group with representatives from 6 ministries and other relevant agencies.

At an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers on 31st of March, the previous Ordinance on integration of foreigners with refugee status or international protection (adopted with Decision of the Council of Ministers in 2016) was repealed. The main reasons for the repeal included the lack of supervisory body to monitor the implementation of the whole process of signing of agreements between municipalities and refugees granted refugee status and international protection.

After the meeting last week, the caretaker social minister Galab Donev highlighted that no such agreement was signed since the previous Ordinance had been published in August 2016.