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Institute for eGovernment

During a press conference held in Borovets (a mountain resort close to the country’s capital), the Minister presented the activities of the project entitled 'Improving administrative customer service by building central eGovernment systems’. The project is worth about BGN 12 million (approx. €6 million) and it is funded by the European Union’s Operational Programme for the ‘Administrative Capacity’ (OPAC).

The electronic archive was implement through an EU-funded project for "Improvement of Administrative Services through Development of e-Government."

The total funding of BGN 395 000 was provided by Operational Program Administrative Capacity, and was co-funded through the European Social Fund.

Starting Tuesday, the Transport Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, the Economy Ministry and the National Road Infrastructure Agency and the Bulgarian Air Traffic Services Authority (BULATSA) will be sending and receiving documents electronically.

"Electronic document exchange saves time, boosts the efficiency of the administration and reduces institutions' costs. This is one of the first serious steps aimed at compensating for the delays in the past few years with the implementation of the electronic government ", Moskovski said, specifying that the most pessimistic estimates indicated that the new platform would save BGN 40 000 per year per unit, or a total of BGN 2 M for the five administrative bodies that will be using it.

The news was announced by Valeri Borissov, Deputy Minister for Information Technologies.

The Sofia Municipality is providing fifty e-services to the citizens, while the state administration is launching twenty.

The idea for the establishment of Electronic Government State Agency was discussed at a sitting of the Administrative Reform Council today. Deputy Prime Minister Rumyana Bachvarova noted that the goal is to achieve more operativity and stability as well as to speed up introduction of the e-government by creating a structure-engine of the processes.

It was proposed the establishment of the agency to be realised by restructuring the bodies responsible for the electronic government. The new agency will be responsible for the strategic planning and budgetary programming of horizontal policies for e-government, as well as to maintain technical infrastructure, information centres and communication network of the state administration.

Hospital maternity wards are required to log birth data within 24 hours of a delivery. The data is to be logged in the eRegister by authorised personnel using an electronic signature. It will contain such information as the location, time and date of the birth, details on the mother and newborn (e.g. sex, weight), the obstetrician who performed the delivery, whether it was an IVF pregnancy and if the mother abandoned her newborn.

Electronic services will save time for physical persons who need to visit the capital and the DG at least twice every year to submit various documents such as license applications and certificates, the Deputy Transport Minister Georgi Todorov said at presenting the project.

126 administrative units in the country have introduced quality management systems, 214 administrative units observe the standard service time of 20 minutes, 48 administrative units have improved access of people with disabilities to administrative services, and 10 administrative units can boast of an excellent level of "one-stop-shop" services.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov instructed the ministers to engage personally and more actively with the introduction of e-government.

The reason for this is a comment by Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev on the lack of mobilization for introducing the electronic exchange of documents between administrations and the risk of non-observance of the deadline.

700 million users will meet with you today”, said the minister of the administration of the cyberspace of China, Lu Vey, at the beginning of the working meeting with deputy Prime Minister Rumiana Bachvarova. It took place at the Ministry of the administration of the cyberspace in Beijing.

Deputy Prime Minister Bachvarova and Minister Lu discussed the development of the e-government. The Bulgarian Deputy PM underlined that one of the challenges for all governments are the fast temps of development of the internet space which outrun the development of the e-government. “With you, like with the colleagues from EU and the USA, we have agreed that there is a necessity of centralization of the processes related to e-government in order to improve the services provided to the citizens and the business, as well as the functioning of the administration itself,“ emphasized Minister Bachvarova.

“E-government agency is expected to start working at the beginning of 2016,” said Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Rumyana Bachvarova, speaking with journalists in Bulgaria’s second-biggest city of Plovdiv during the opening of a business forum themed Outsourcing Destination Bulgaria 2015, Radio FOCUS reported.

Bachvarova said the establishment of the agency was a matter of the Electronic Government Act.

“Introduction of the e-government is a key priority of the present government,” deputy head of the Bulgarian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation Pavel Hristov told journalists. He presented a report on the implementation of e-government in the countries of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation during the meeting of the Committee on Economic, Trade, Technological and Environmental Affairs, a reporter of Radio FOCUS – Varna announced.

A total of 14 companies have applied to implement one or more of the eight lots of the public procurement on eGovernment. The whole process will cost some BGN 12 million.

He added that for Bulgaria, as well as other countries in the region, eHealth is not a superfluous luxury, but a coherent approach to improving the effectiveness of the health system given a shortage of financial resources.

The Managing Authority of the Operational Programme 'Administrative Capacity' (Оперативна програма 'Административен капацитет' - OPAC, in Bulgarian) has approved the MTITC project proposal 'Improvement of service delivery to the [users of government services] through the development of central eGovernment systems'.

The project is worth BGN 12 million and is implemented with the financial assistance of Administrative Capacity OP, which is co-financed by the EU.

The issues were discussed during talks between Plevneliev and Ilves on during the first day of Plevneliev's official visit to Tallinn, according to a media statement of the Bulgarian President's Office.