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
Administrative penalty proceedings in Bulgaria
This last chapter analyses procedural issues of administrative penalty law. It deals with principles, rights and standards applicable to and during proceedings, rules to serve summons and notices as well as to possible procedural dynamics such as suspension, consolidation and in absentia proceedings. Recommendations and proposals build on the draft Code of Administrative Violations and Penalties of 2015, whose proposals represent a valuable basis to complement the legal framework and avoid gaps and loopholes that emerged in practice.
Also available in: Bulgarian
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