Bulgaria Schedule of Events - July 11 - Nov 25

* Friday, July 11 - Sofia: Bulgaria's largest fuel retailer Petrol to hold a news conference (0800 GMT)

Monday, July 14 - Sofia: Statistics office NSI to release June consumer price inflation data.

Monday, July 14 - Sofia: Bulgarian central bank's Issue Department to release data on its foreign exchange assets as of July 11.

Tuesday, July 15 - Sofia: Central bank to release May current account data (0900 GMT)

Monday, July 21 - Sofia: Bulgarian central bank's Issue Department to release data on its foreign exchange assets as of July 18.

Monday, July 21 - Sofia: Bulgaria's central bank to auction 35 million levs in 10-year treasury notes.

Wednesday, 23 July - Brussels (Belgium): The European Commission will announce annual reports on the progress made by Bulgaria and Romania in the judicial reform and fighting corruption.

Wednesday, July 23 - Sofia: Statistics office NSI to release data on housing prices in the first half of the year.

Wednesday, July 23 - Sofia: Central bank to release May gross foreign debt data (1100 GMT).

Wednesday, July 23 - Sofia: Bulgaria's central bank to release June money supply data (0900 GMT).

Wednesday, July 23 - Sofia: Bulgaria’s central bank issues data on the credit portfolio of the Bulgarian commercial banks at end-May (0900 GMT).

Thursday, July 24 - Sofia: Shareholders in Bulgarian industrial group Chimimport to vote on a proposal to skip 2007 dividend (0900 GMT).

Monday, July 28 - Sofia: Bulgarian statistics office NSI to release business sentiment data for July.

Monday, July 28 - Sofia: Bulgarian central bank's Issue Department to release data on its foreign exchange assets as of July 25.

Monday, July 28 - Sofia: A tender for the sale of 100% of Bulgarian arms producer NITI to take place after the country’s Privatisation Agency extended the deadline for submission of bids from June 16. The call price is set at 6.1 million levs.

Tuesday, July 29 - Sofia: Sofia City Court to start hearings in an insolvency case against debt-ridden Bulgarian steel mill Kremikovtzi.

Tuesday, July 29 - Sofia: Bulgaria to call a tender for a fourth mobile operator at a staring price of 38 million levs.

Wednesday, July 30 - Sofia: Statistics office NSI to release June producer prices data.

Wednesday, July 30 - Ruse (Bulgaria): Bulgarian blue-chip paint manufacturer Orgachim to hold a shareholders’ meeting to vote on proposal to skip 2007 dividend (0800 GMT).

Thursday, July 31 - Sofia: Deadline by which Bulgaria should prepare a plan to deal with irregularities in the absorption of funds under the European Union’s Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (SAPARD) expires.

Thursday, July 31 - Sofia: Deadline for the Finance Ministry to release June budget surplus data.

Thursday, July 31 - Lom (Bulgaria): Shareholders in Bulgarian brewery Lomsko Pivo to vote on a proposal to retain 471,000 levs from 2007 audited net profit of 921,000 levs and to distribute the remaining 450,000 levs in cash dividend for last year (0700 GMT).

Monday, August 25 - Sofia: Financial and industrial group Eurohold Bulgaria to release data on its consolidated financial results for the second quarter.

Monday, August 25 - Sofia: Blue-chip car battery manufacturer MonBat to issue revenue and profit forecast for the third quarter of 2008.

Tuesday, September 16 - Sofia: A conference on the prospects before the capital markets in southeast Europe, organised by the Bulgarian Stock Exchange, to take place.

Monday, September 22 - Independence Day. Public and market holiday.

Thursday, November 6 - Sofia: Sofia's Municipal Privatisation Agency to auction 65.55% of Municipal Insurance Company at a call price of 9.6 million levs.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Financial and industrial group Eurohold Bulgaria to release data on its consolidated financial results for the third quarter.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Blue-chip car battery manufacturer MonBat to issue revenue and profit forecast for the last quarter of 2008.