BULGARIAN MIGRATION POLICY Free movement of persons- one of the four fundamental freedoms of Community law Bulgaria needs to keep its human capital Existing tension between these two objectives
Estimations of the factual emigration flow (1) Rounded figures
Estimations of the factual emigration flow (2) Rounded figures, based on the first mentioned destination
Major steps undertaken: New legislature in Bulgaria in the context of free movement of persons Establishment of an administrative unit “Free movement of workers and management of the external labour migration” Posting advisers on social and labour issues at the Embassies of Bulgaria Establishment of an Interinstitutional working group on migration and integration of immigrants in Bulgaria
Bulgaria opens its labour market The Council of Ministers of Bulgaria approved with a Decision on the position of Bulgaria to apply the Community law in the field of free movement of workers Work-permit stays for third country nationals 1000 citizens of third countries work currently in the country
Current picture of the employment in Bulgaria people in a working age Employed Unemployed people of the unemployed are with a secondary vocational/general education people of the unemployed are with a higher education people (for the first half of 2006) are “discouraged”; of them are with a secondary general/vocational education of them are with a higher education
Measures to ensure qualification of the working force people have been included in qualification training in 2006 More than people will get qualified in 2007 Statistics is an important tool to manage migration The migration policy of Bulgaria reflects our commitment to comply with the EU law but at the same time it takes into consideration our national interest