Bulgaria is the only country in Central and Eastern Europe to allow the use of foreign debt bonds in privatisation. It is a challenge to introduce a debt-for-equity swap mechanism in a country which is in transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, because of the unique nature of this transition. Of course, it is being carried out based on the considerable experience and analyses of the effect of the debt-for-equity swaps in some countries in Latin America and Africa. The Bulgarian experience is quite modest, since the legal framework of such swaps was enforced only in December 1994.