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The rule forbidding journalists or commentators on state radio and television to comment or offer opinions on political parties or individual candidates during election campaigns is unconstitutional. This was the ruling given by the Bulgarian Constitutional Court in its judgment No. 15 of 13 September 1995. The case concerned Section 62 (1) of the Local Elections Act (LEA), which prohibits journalists reporting on election campaigns from expressing personal opinions on parties or candidates, and from commenting critically on them. Fifty-two MPs, opposition representatives and the President had...

On 19 September 1995, the Bulgarian Constitutional Court gave a long overdue decision on the constitutional validity of the provisional Statute of Bulgarian National Television (BNT) and Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), which provides a legal basis for the work of the state broadcasting services. The text objected to was the the result of an agreement reached between the political groups represented in the constituent National Assembly (GNA) of 1990-91 on ways of ensuring a peaceful transition to a democratic society. The main intention was to free the broadcasting services from the control of...

Para. 1-6. The heading of Section VII of Chapter III of the Special Part shall be reworded as follows: "Indictable offences against intellectual property". Para. 17. A new Article 172a shall be incorporated: Art. 172a (1) Anyone who for commercial purposes copies, disseminates, uses technical means to reproduce or in any way exploits a work of science, literature or art produced by another person without securing the rightsholder's consent, as required by law, shall be liable to imprisonment for up to three years and a fine of up to 200,000 leva. (2) The same penalty shall also apply to anyone...

On 19 May, the National Assembly of Bulgaria passed an amendment to the Criminal Code, providing for stricter measures against the pirating of copyright works. The whole of Section VII of Chapter III of the relevant part of the Code (previously headed "Plagiarism") is now headed "Indictable offences against intellectual property". Under the new Article 172a, anyone who for commercial purposes copies, disseminates, uses technical means to reproduce or in any way exploits works of science, literature or art without first obtaining the rightsholder's permission, as required by law, faces imprisonment...

On 18 December 1994, the European Council and the Commission of the European Communities drew up a joint agreement to set up an association between the European Communities and their Member States and Bulgaria. When it comes into force, this collaboration agreement, as provided for in Article 124, will replace the Agreement on business and economic co-operation and trade signed in Brussels on 8 May 1990 between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Bulgaria. Some of the objectives of the association include the gradual setting-up of a free-trade area between the Community and Bulgaria...