2. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com EU main Instruments: the legislation, incl. regulations, rules, procedures, standards, and others and the budget

3. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com Legislation - Simultaneous Introduction Vertically – to provide liberalization sector by sector Horizontally – to liberalize activities, unify procedures, enforce common standards, introduce common terminology and documentation, certified procedures, regulatory regimes and rules

4. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com Vertically - Sectors with Grater Economic Impact Energy – physically and practically influences the predominant number of economic sectors Communications (ICT) – passes through all economy sectors

5. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com Good Practices Common Roaming Standard for Mobile Communications Single technical platform for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System (ECB Target and Target 2) Electric power grid Interconnections – introduced on a voluntary basis by some of the national operators

6. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com Horizontally – Common EU Rules Common regulatory regimes Common company tax base Open EU market for Public and Corporate Procurements Common EU Stock Market

7. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com EU Legislation at the National Level The EU Legislation should not be adapted to the national ones, it should be transposed without any change The national legislations that are in non-conformity with the EU legislation should be changed The legal obligation launched by EU has to be enforced in all countries simultaneously. The “timing” is crucially important

8. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com Obligatory Implementation of the Principles The “silence in consent” principle (when the authority doesn’t express an opinion or doesn’t make decision on the due date, then the decision for the applicant should be admitted as positive) The administrative services fees should not exceed the administrative expenditures

9. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com EU Community Budget The actions that are co-financed by the Structural and Cohesion Funds should be EU Community oriented for the common European projects There must be a gradual budget share increase for the Common European projects

10. Employers’ Group Extraordinary Meeting on the challenges and opportunities of the internal market for business in Europe www.bia-bg.com The present budget distribution approach, nationally limited and oriented, forces a “bureaucracy driven national economies” and jeopardizes the local economic relations with sovietization