YEARS ANNUAL R E PORT 20 2 1

Nevertheless: We were actively involved in the efforts to enhance the mechanisms for citizen proved by the 47th National Assem- participation in the legislative process: in April, the 45th National Assembly bly in December include a require- made some amendments to the Regulation on its organization and activity, ment for public consultations on the and introduced the requirement for the draft law. [...] The final session of the Council held on 9 December 2021 approved, out of the agreement with the responsible total of 38 measures proposed, 18 measures to be included in the Fourth National government institutions: more Plan, and these were published for the purpose of public consultations. [...] In June, transparency and access to information; governance integrity and anti-corruption; RUSI Europe, with the participation and open data; of experts from Greenacre Group, and in partnership with the Financial Intelligence Directorate of SANS and A development that was not optimistic was the lack of progress on the topic related the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit to the Council for Civil S. [...] Regrettably, civil society organizations were not included in one of the forum to discuss the application of the most important documents for reforms in Bulgaria, either: the Plan for Recovery new legislation on that topic, as well as and Resilience which is expected to address, via EU funding, many challenges in how the organizations themselves can the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic; be invol. [...] The official guests at the event in Sofia were the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria Diana Kovacheva and the Deputy Minister of Justice Maria Pavlova.