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
Typologies, criteria and levels of penalties in Bulgaria
This chapter addresses the challenges of the legal framework of Bulgaria in ensuring that the typologies, criteria and levels of administrative penalties imposed when necessary, are capable to provide a proportional and coherent response to administrative breaches. For this purpose, it considers the general rules laid down in the AVPA but also a sample of special laws exemplifying the various typologies of problems related to the level of penalties. In this context, the report makes specific recommendations to create more differentiated administrative penalties to maximize compliance, but also starts a debate to reform the system of penalties as a whole. The report also analyses other related issues such as the relationship between similar administrative offences and crimes, as well as the regime for repeated and systemic violations.
Also available in: Bulgarian
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