In the course of the two-day joint meeting the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Legal and Political Affairs Committee and Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs Committee discussed the Proposal of the Declaration on the strengthening of the status of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, and the two committees’ activity reports.

MP Katarina Rakic was elected rapporteur for the next meeting of the Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs Committee in March 2016 in Yerevan. The PABSEC Legal and Political Affairs Committee was also scheduled to elect a new Chairman, and Bulgarian delegation member Krasimir Velchev, leader of the Bulgarian ruling party GERB, was elected.

The meeting was hosted by the Bulgarian Parliament. The National Assembly delegation was headed by National Assembly Deputy Speaker and Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation MA Igor Becic, and comprised MP Katarina Rakic as member of the delegation.