Promoting Integrity through the Reform of the Administrative Penalty System of Bulgaria
Building a Comprehensive and Coherent Legal Framework
This report analyses Bulgaria's legal framework for administrative penalties. Administrative penalties are crucial for ensuring accountability in the public administration. The report assesses the subjective scope of their application, the typologies and levels of administrative penalties, and the proceedings for applying them. The report highlights relevant good practices from other EU Member States, and provides recommendations on how to address key challenges as well as legislative proposals for building a comprehensive legal framework.
Also available in: Bulgarian
The administrative penalty framework in Bulgaria
This chapter introduces the origins and development of administrative penalty law in Bulgaria and describes the applicable legal framework including its recent reforms. It addresses the relevance of ensuring the quality of administrative penalties for public sector integrity. The section also outlines the underlying goals of the analysis, the scope of the report as well as the challenges and ways of improvement for the regulations.
Also available in: Bulgarian