Bulgaria Schedule of Events - Sept 11 - Nov 25

* Thursday, September 11 – Nice (France): Bulgarian Finance Minster Plamen Oresharski to attend a meeting Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN).

* Thursday, September 11 - Sofia: The 6th international conference "Security in Southeast Europe – Public-Private Partnerships for Critical Infrastructure Protection" takes place.

* Thursday, September 11 - Sofia: Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu pays official visit to Bulgaria.

*Thursday, September 11 - Sofia: Government holds a regular session.

Friday, September 12 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release August consumer price index.

Monday, September 15 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release GDP data for the second quarter.

Monday, September 15 - Sofia: Bulgaria's central bank to auction 15 million lev in three-month Treasury bills.

Tuesday, September 16 - Sofia: Bulgaria's central bank to issue current account data for end-July (0900 GMT).

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.

Thursday, September 18 - Sofia: Shareholders of blue-chip Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) to vote on a proposal to pass 2008 dividend. (0800 GMT)

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

Tuesday, September 23 - Sofia: The Bulgarian Stock Exchange to replace seven components of its BG TotalReturn30 (BG TR30) index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.

Tuesday, September 23 - Sofia: Bulgaria's dominant fixed-line telecoms provider BTC holds a shareholders' meeting to vote on merging its wireless unit BTC Mobile into BTC (0600 GMT).

Tuesday, September 23 - Sofia: The Bulgarian Stock Exchange holds an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to discuss management issues (0700 GMT).

Wednesday, September 24 - Sofia: Bulgaria's central bank to issue data on end-July gross foreign debt (1100 GMT).

Friday, September 26 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release business sentiment index.

Friday, September 26 - Dimitrovgrad: Shareholders of blue-chip chemical fertilisers producer Neochim to vote on a proposal to appoint a representative of Chimimport Group, a subsidiary of blue-chip industrial conglomerate Chimimport, as a management board member (meeting starts 0900 GMT).

Friday, September 26 - Sofia: Creditors of Bulgaria's largest steel mill, Ispat Industries-owned Kremikovtzi, which a Sofia court has declared insolvent, to hold a meeting.

Monday, September 29 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release August producer price data.

Monday, September 29 - Sofia: Finance Ministry to auction 30 million levs worth of 10-year government bonds.

Monday, September 29 - Sofia: Bulgaria's central bank to auction 30 million lev ($23.9 million/15.3 million euro) in 10-year treasury notes.

Tuesday, September 30 - Sofia: Deadline expires for the Finance Ministry to release August budget balance data.

Thursday, October 9 - Sofia (Bulgaria): 3rd Balkan real estate conference - Bulgaria, organised by Balkan Property exhibition (BalPEx) takes place.

Friday, October 10 - Sofia (Bulgaria): 4th Balkan Property exhibition - BalPEx - Fall 2008 (www.balpex.eu) starts (until October 12).

Monday, October 20 - Sofia: Finance Ministry to auction 30 million levs in five-year government bonds.

Friday, October 24 - Sofia: Deadline for placing bids for the heating utility in the northeastern city of Shumen.

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 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.