Bulgaria
1. Legal Gazette
1.1. Overview
Darzhaven vestnik: ofitsialno izdanie na Republika Bulgaria
State Gazette — the Official Journal of the Republic of Bulgaria
Published by:
Narodno sabranie na Republika Bulgaria
(National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria)
Narodno Sabranie Square 2 — 1169 Sofia
Bulgaria
Tel. +359 293939
Fax +359 29813131
E-mail: infocentre@parliament.bg
Website: http://www.parliament.bg
| Official journal / legal gazette |
In Bulgaria there is a single official journal, which is divided into an offcial section containing legislation and a non-official section with legal notices and other official texts; see point 1.2 for details. |
| First edition |
28 July 1879
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| First online edition |
3 May 2005 (contents of the official section only-titles of the included material)
Since 1 July 2008, the equivalent of the paper edition (PDF) and the texts of all materials in the current edition, as well as the register of all materials received by the editorial have been available. |
| Paper edition |
Darzhaven vestnik:
ofitsialno pechatno izdanie na Republika Bulgaria — ofitsialen razdel
Price
BGN 96 (EUR 48) annual subscription
Legally binding |
| Online edition |
http://dv.parliament.bg
Available texts
From 3 May 2005: summary of the official section From 1 July 2008: PDF files of the current edition and all texts of the Darzhaven vestnik
Access and price
Free |
| CD/DVD edition |
No CD/DVD edition |
1.2. Details on the legal gazette in general
| Content |
- Official section (Ofitsialen razdel): all legislative acts, international treaties and agreements, parliamentary decisions, decrees, regulations and rules of the Council of Ministers, decrees of the president, decisions of the Constitutional Court, decisions of the Supreme Administrative Court, rules, ordinances and instructions of ministers and normative acts of other state bodies.
- Non-official section (Neofitsialen razdel): individual administrative acts of ministers and heads of state and municipal bodies; notifications and announcements of ministries, other departments, academies, high schools and research institutes, municipalities; notices: calls for tender, competitions, legal subpoenas and announcements; invitations to corporate general meetings, etc.
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| Legal basis |
The legal bases for the publication of legislation are:
- the law on the state gazette (Zakon za „Darzhaven vestnik“) of 7 November 1995, published in Darzhaven vestnik No 89 of 6 October 1995; latest amendments to the law establishing the online edition of the Darzhaven vestnik were adopted on 31 January 2008 and published in Darzhaven vestnik No 16 of 15 February 2008;
- Rules of procedure of the National Assembly;
- Internal rules of procedure of the Administration of the National Assembly.
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| Legally binding |
Paper edition |
| Financing |
Subscription revenue, publication fees and state budget |
1.3. Details on the online edition
http://dv.parliament.bg
See also point 1.1
| Functionalities |
The legal bases for the publication of legislation are:
- the law on the state gazette (Zakon za „Darzhaven vestnik“) of 7 November 1995, published in Darzhaven vestnik No 89 of 6 October 1995; latest amendments to the law establishing the online edition of the Darzhaven vestnik were adopted on 31 January 2008 and published in Darzhaven vestnik No 16 of 15 February 2008;
- Rules of procedure of the National Assembly;
- Internal rules of procedure of the Administration of the National Assembly.
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| Format description |
PDF, HTML |
| Authenticity |
A chain of trust (both the sender and receiver are known) is used as a measure for guaranteeing the integrity of the workflow and the authenticity of the (electronically) published text. The requirements of the law on the state gazette (Zakon za „Darzhaven vestnik“) are met. |
| Archiving |
No legal provisions for the archiving of gazette editions and the materials published at http://dv.parliament.bg in general exist. The editorial has uploaded the gazette editions up to and including 1989, and the materials – up until 2003. |
Access via N-Lex
(see Annex 2) |
N-Lex has not yet established access to the online edition of the Darzhaven vestnik (spring 2009). |
1.4. Details on the publishing institution
Narodno sabranie na Republika Bulgaria
(National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria)
For contact details, please refer to point 1.1
| Form and nature |
The Darzhaven vestnik is a department of the Bulgarian parliament. |
| Basic tasks |
- Pre-press: yes
- Printing: no
- Dissemination/distribution: no
- Legal gazette online: yes
- Legislation database: no
- Consolidation: no
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| Other services offered |
- Data service on companies
- Document information
- Phone information
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1.5. Drafting and publishing procedures
Text processing
systems |
- Standard software is used for drafting and adopting legislation.
- The same system is used for primary and secondary legislation.
- Word templates are used and then converted to XML format.
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| Workflow |
Texts are transmitted electronically.
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| Publishing |
- The editors and proofreaders' office of the Darzhaven vestnik are in charge of proofreading and editing the texts.
- The paper and electronic editions are derived from the same final text file but are published at different times.
- A private subcontractor is charged with the printing services: Alliance Print Ltd. 3 Iliya Beshkov Str., 1592 Sofia, Bulgaria
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2. Collections of consolidated Legislation
See full details >>
Edition Normativni Aktove
(Normative Acts)
Electronically transmitted
Body carrying out
consolidation |
Companies – APIS, Ciela and others |
| Access |
Online edition |
Deadline for
consolidation |
For every edition at the day of publication |
3. Legislative portals and online databases
3.1. Official portals
3.2. Official databases
For the Darzhaven vestnik online and the information in it see point 1.3
Apart from the Darzhaven vestnik online, no other official legislative database exists.
3.3. Additional information: other commonly used legal databases
The following hosts disseminate an online edition of EUR-Lex under licence from the Publications Office:
