The AEAF is an Executive Agency attached to the Ministry of Finance. Together with other ministries and institutions, the Agency elaborates and suggests specific economic programmes and observes and assesses their implementation. The AEAF participates in the pre-accession negotiations and the preparation of Bulgaria for a full-fledged membership in the EU.
The principal functions and tasks of the AEAF are as follows:
- to analyse the current business environment and the economic situation and to elaborate assessments on the country’s economic development prospects
- to prepare short-, medium- and long-term forecasts for Bulgaria’s economic development trends under different economic policy scenarios
- to examine on a comparative basis economic transition in Bulgaria and the other Central and Eastern European countries.
The Agency’s website, available in Bulgarian and English, features:
- reports on recent developments in the Bulgarian economy
- main macroeconomic and financial indicators
- National Development Plan
- Pre-accession Economic Programme
- regular publications of Business Surveys
- working papers
- books.