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of great significance for us and would be
of tremendous help.” Gunec explained,
adding the first step had already been
made through the establishment of that
registry.
The ‘REGIONAL CULTURAL ACTIVITIES’
DIRECTORATE is a section in Ministry of
Culture’s structure, which implements
state’s cultural policy. Some of its
activities
include:
development
of
strategies and programmes, concerning
cultural activities in cultural clubs
(chitalishta); cultural integration of the
minorities, as well as the implementation
of measures for protection of gifted
children in the field of arts.
On the other hand, the National Culture
Fund is created on the base of the Law
for protection and development of culture
and starts functioning in November,
2000. The National Culture Fund
supports the development of Bulgarian
culture, by subsidizing different arts,
cultural activities and authors. The
governing body of the National Culture
Fund is The Board of Managers. At the
beginning of each financial year The
Board of Managers approves a plan for
subsidizing particular areas of culture by
different programmes.
The
National
Culture
Fund
was
established by the virtue of Culture
Protection and Development Act and its
activity started in November 2000. Its
main objective is to support the
development of culture by raising,
managing and spending funds for the
purpose of pursuing the national policy
in the field of culture as set forth in the
Program of the Government of the
Republic of Bulgaria for the respective
period and in the Culture Protection and
Development Act. The priorities in NCF
activity are also in compliance with the
criteria set forth in Chapter “Culture &
Audio-visual Policy” of the EU Accession
Treaty of Bulgaria.
NEWSTREK
The managing body of the National
Culture Fund is a Managing Board
chaired by the Minister of Culture. The
members of the Managing Board are
some
renowned
cultural
figures,
representatives of artistic unions and one
representative of Municipalities, Ministry
of Culture and Ministry of Finance.
Financial resources for the fund are
raised by a subsidy as set forth in the
State Budget of the Republic of Bulgaria
Act for the respective budget year and
other sources of funding as set forth in
article 31 of the Culture Protection and
Development
Act.
Funds
are
predominantly
granted
for
artistic
projects aiming at development of
cultural sector. The artistic projects are
funded
after
announcement
of
competitions under a program prepared
and approved in advance by the
Managing Board.
At the beginning of each year the
Managing Board of the National Culture
Fund outlines the directions of priority
for which financial support is to be
granted. The underlying principles of NC
Fund’s work are transparency and
competit