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
Executive summary
The reform of the administrative penalty legal framework forms part of Bulgaria’s anti-corruption agenda. The Anti-corruption Strategy of Bulgaria 2015-2020 emphasised integrity risks in the enforcement of laws and regulations through administrative penalties and included the reform of the legal framework as part of the strategy to mitigate them. This approach was confirmed by the Anticorruption Strategy 2021-2027, which set as one of its priority objectives the improvement of legislation on the control and sanctioning of the administration with a view to limiting the scope for corrupt practices.
Also available in: Bulgarian
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