The European Commission has eventually decided to take Bulgaria to the EU Court of Justice for failing to protect its citizens from the effects of bad waste management. The move has been taken on the recommendation of Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik, the European Commission announced in a press release.
A meeting of the Civil and Commercial College General Assembly (CCCGA) of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) has been scheduled for 13.02.2014. Thereat the SCC is expected to come up with a ruling on interpretative case No 4/2013.
At its meeting today the Committee on Legal Affairs to the 42nd National Assembly adopted some controversial proposals for amending the Law on Amending the Law on Public Procurement. Therewith municipalities and ministries are provided the legal opportunity to assign companies in which the state and / or the municipalities is/are sole or majority owners with the implementation of public procurement without having to announce and follow the otherwise required competition procedure for choosing a final public procurement contractor.
