Regulations
Why Bulgarians Still Pay for Access to Their Laws?
The citizens, businesses and administration in Bulgaria do not have free access to the consolidated texts of the current regulatory framework, which is legally binding.
Our highly conservative estimates of the direct cost to the economy of the lack of access to legal information in consolidated form is for aggregate annual cost of at least 6.8 million BGN.
Plain Packaging and its Unintended Consequences
2012
In economics, the availability of information is important. The available evidence shows that enforcing plain packaging on tobacco products would have detrimental consequences on legal producers and their brands, without reducing the consumption of tobacco. On the contrary, instead of reducing health risks, this policy would achieve exactly the opposite of its stated purpose by leading to an increase in the number of smokers. It would not be the first time that a seemingly well-intentioned policy produces harmful unintended consequences.The main conclusions of the research show that any implementation of plain packaging would at best represent merely a shot in the dark as far as public health is concerned, and unfortunately risks provoking consequences that are more negative than positive.
