Privatization Agency

Stamen Yanev has been appointed Executive Director of InvestBulgaria Agency, replacing Svetoslav Mladenov.

Yanev is a lawyer specialized in mergers and acquisitions as well as investment, the government's investment promotion agency said in a statement on Tuesday.

VIENNA - Serbia may achieve greater growth than the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) program projects, but it depends on the outcome of the privatization of Zelezara Smederevo and other companies, including those on the Privatization Agency's list, Serbia's Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said Tuesday.

Deadline for Smederevo steel mill expires

BELGRADE -- The deadline for submission of bids for a 80.01 percent stake in Zelezara Smederevo expires today and all the received bids will be opened on January 9.

188 companies to be declared bankrupt - minister

BELGRADE -- Of some 512 companies that are currently looking for new owners through the Privatization Agency, 188 will be declared bankrupt, Zeljko Sertic has said.

The Serbian economy minister also explained that procedures to sell about 90 companies have been abandoned.

Government initiates privatization of steel mill

BELGRADE -- The Serbian government decided on Thursday to initiate the privatization of the steel company Zelezara Smederevo.

It opted for the model of strategic partnership through added capitalization, and the method of public bidding.

The deadline for submission of offers is January 5, 2015.

Serbia's government reached a decision Thursday concerning launching an initiative to privatize the Zelezara Smederevo steelworks.

The country's Privatization Agency will Friday invite all interested investors to submit their expressions of interest for participating in the privatization of Zelezara Smederevo, says a statement from today's government meeting.

Three large European stock exchanges showed interest in the privatization of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE), said former Vice PM Daniela Bobeva on Wednesday.

She did not say which were the candidates for the stock exchange.

BELGRADE - Privatization through direct bargaining will no longer be possible, Serbian Economy Minister Dusan Vujovic said Monday, pointing to one of the most significant changes to the privatization law.

BELGRADE – Sasa Mirkovic, assistant Serbian minister of culture responsible for the media, has said that a total of 79 state owned media firms will be privatized and relevant media legislation should be adopted in the second half of the year.

BELGRADE - The Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI) stated that a process was launched on Friday to monitor the proactive approach to the realization of the rights to free access to information of public importance.