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About BTA

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is Bulgaria's national news agency. It was established by a decree issued by Prince Ferdinand I in 1898. The BTA is now a major and reliable source of information to the print and electronic media, the state bodies and NGOs in Bulgaria. BTA's operation is regulated by a Statute adopted by the 36th National Assembly on 29 June 1994.

The Agency is "an autonomous national news organization", whose director general is elected by Parliament. The Agency's Statute guarantees its independent editorial policy and protects it from any economic and political influence.

BTA's operation is financed from the sale of its information services and products, through advertisements, and through action allocations from the national budget.

BTA's services, transmitted inside and outside Bulgaria on the Internet, the Agency's Intranet or by e-mail, include:
An item signed BТА is transmitted every 2 minutes 24 hours a day.	Home News	News Channel /news from Bulgaria and the world/
	International News	Electronic Media Monitor
	Balkan News	News in English
	Economic News	A review of the national daily press in Bulgarian and in English
	Amusement & Knowledge	PressPhoto
	Sports

BTA has a large store of reference material. Reference Bulgaria, which includes data in Bulgarian on all bodies of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, on the political parties and movements, the educational establishments, the media and the Diplomatic Corps, is available on the Internet and is updated on a daily basis.

The Reference Library desk also compiles:	Daily Calendar
	Forthcoming Events in Bulgaria
	Forthcoming International Events
	Forthcoming Sports Events
	Dates and Events
	Calendar of the Year

BTA’s Daily News is the only English-language daily in Bulgaria. The "Paraleli" weekly illustrated magazine has been a Bulgarian readers' favourite for 37 years now. The monthly magazine LIK (the Bulgarian acronym for "Literature, Art, Culture") and "100%", a single-topic-per-issue monthly, are leaders in the Bulgarian magazine market in their respective niches.

PARTNERS

BTA is a member of the European Alliance of News Agencies, whose statute stipulates that only one news agency per country is admitted. It is also a founder member of the Association of Balkan News Agencies. BTA exchanges information with:

Global News Agencies

National News Agencies
Anadoln Ajancy (Ankara)	MIA (Skopje)
EFE (Madrid)	ATA (Tirana)
KYODO (Tokyo)	HINA (Zagreb)
ANA (Athens)	APA (Vienna)
MPA (Thessaloniki)	Xinhua (Beijing)
Mediafax (Bucharest)	Yonhap (Seoul)
Rompres (Bucharest)	KUNA (Kuwait City)
TANJUG (Belgrade)	IRNA (Tehran)

BTA's economic news and analysis service is also available in Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company and the Internet Securities Inc services. BTA receives and transmits to its subscribers the picture services of the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) and Assotiated Press (AP).

© 2010 БТА - The content of the information database of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA or the Agency) and the technologies used thereby, are under protection from the Copyright and Neighboring Rights Act. All texts, photographic and graphic images in the database are property of BTA unless expressly mentioned otherwise. Users and subscribers of the BTA information database are obligated to use all materials from the information database of the Agency in accordance with the General Terms of the BTA agreements and the effective legislation of the Republic of Bulgaria.