The Cabinet in its 21 meetings held during the first six months of this year examined 536 draft decisions, 523 of which were approved, while 13 were excluded. On June 30, of the 523 approved decisions, 498 were issued, 23 were in the process of being issued, while two were subject to the protocol registration annulment procedure, IPN reports.

According to the Government’s press service, in the first half of 2016 the Cabinet approved 817 decisions, by 319 or 39% more than in the corresponding period this year. The number of decisions taken in January-June this year is by 89 or 21.8% higher than in the same period of 2015, when only 409 decisions were made.

In the first half of 2017, there were made 68 Government ordinances, which is by eight fewer than in the corresponding period of 2016 (76 orders) and by four fewer than in January-June 2015 (72 orders).