At its meeting on August 30, 2022, the Supervisory Board of the National Insurance Institute (NII) elected a new management.

Acting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor and Social Policy Lazar Lazarov was elected as the chairman of the supreme governing body of the institute. As a representative of the nationally represented trade union organizations, Asya Goneva from the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions takes over the position of deputy chairman of the council.

The meeting was attended by the new representatives of the state appointed by the Council of Ministers in the Supervisory Board of NOI – Lazar Lazarov, Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Toma Tomov, Deputy Minister of Health, and Dimitar Danchev, Deputy Minister of Economy and Industry.

According to the provisions of the Social Security Code, the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board of the National Insurance Institute has a mandate of one year and is handed over on a rotating basis between the three parties participating in it – executive power, employers’ organizations and trade unions.