Novemeber 21st the Ministry of culture published the Project of the Law on volunteering and the motives on their website. The aim is to establish the legal ties of volunteering, to difine the volunteer status, rights, responsibilities and obligations. Moreover, the Law would define what is a short-term, long-term and corporate volunteering. Some of the participants in the group working on the project were representatives of non-governmental organizations organizing volunteer activities. The working group started because 2011 is the European Year of Volunteering.
The project is open to discussion till December 5th and everybody interested can make suggestions and statements about it. You have to send your comment to Ms Miglena Borislavova in the Ministry of Culture on the following email m.borislavova@mc.government.bg.
Project of the Law on volunteering (Bulgarian only)
Motives to the Law on Volunteering (Bulgarian only)