Improving the quality of the legislative process

This reform aims to improve the quality and predictability of the legislative process within the National Assembly.

It was implemented through the adoption of Rules for the Organisation and the Activity of the National Assembly which provide that: all draft legislation proposed by Members of Parliament is accompanied by reasoning and a preliminary impact assessment, all written opinions of citizens or legal entities are published on the website of the responsible parliamentary committee and that the proposals for amendments and supplements to a draft legislative act adopted at the first vote may not refer to legislative acts, different from those, the amendment or supplement of which has been proposed in the initially submitted draft legislative act, except under specific circumstances.

The implementation of the reform was completed in 2021.

Additional links:

• https://dv.parliament.bg/DVWeb/showMaterialDV.jsp?idMat=166909