December 2 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Wednesday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
DNEVNIK
- Bulgarian companies are importing cheaper electricity from Romania, the daily quoted business officials as saying. Industrial clients in neighbouring Romania and Serbia can buy cheaper electricity than on the free market in Bulgaria. The price of electricity in Bulgaria varies between 73 levs and 80 levs per megawatthour and is expected to rise further from 2010 as the excise of electricity will increase to 2.0 levs per megawatthour from 1.40 levs.
- The Vienna Stock Echange wants to acquire a stake in the Bulgarian Stock Exchange, the daily quoted Wiener Boerse CEO Michael Bull as telling Bloomberg on Monday. The Vienna bourse already owns a majority stake on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange, the Budapest Stock Exchange and the Prague bourse. Another potential buyer of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange - Deutsche Boerse - has refrained from commenting on the news.
- The changes in legislation governing the practice of crafts in Bulgaria, proposed by the Economy Energy and Tourism Ministry, has sparked unease in the sector. According to the draft legislation the number of the currently registered 127 crafts will be halved and the obligatory exams conducted by the Crafts’ Chamber will be scrapped. The new act will allow craftsmen to register their business as companies.
MONITOR
- The chairman of the Bulgarian Commercial and Industry Chamber Tsvetan Simeonov expects Bulgaria's GDP to grow by one percent next year. He also expects industrial production and employment to rise in the second half of 2010.
STANDART
- The European Commission allowed Bulgaria to increase excise levied on biofuels by a smaller margin than initially planned. The excise on unleaded petrol with four to five percent biofuel content will rise to 664 levs per 1,000 litres instead of 685 levs. For diesel fiel with biodiesel content of four to five percent the excise will be 582 levs per 1,000 litres rather than 600 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)