Constitution

International agreements

Sentence 12/2003 of the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria

Decision 46/1997 on conscientious objection 

Texts

Constitution of the Kingdom of Bulgaria in 1879

Organic law of Eastern Rumeli

Constitution 1997

Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria 1971

Constitution 2005

Constitution 2008

Case Law of the Constitutional Court

Decision n. 5 on june 11 1992 and the constitutional case n° 11/1992

Decision of the court in Strasbourg October 26, 2000 Hasan and Chaush v Bulgaria

Decision n. 184 of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, signed in Sofia on 03.08.2012

Decision n. 240 of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, signed in Sofia on 24.07.2012

Supreme Holy Council of the Muslim Community vs Bulgaria

Case of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Inokentiy and others vs Bulgaria

Religious Communities

National and International Agreements

Bulgarian-turkish Protocol of 1910

Agreement and Protocol friendship between Bulgaria and Turkey in 1926

Statutes and Internal Rules

Statute of the bulgarian episcopal conference

Statute Bulgarian Orthodox Church in 1950

Statute of the Bulgarian orthodox church – Bulgarian Patriarchate 2003

Statute Muslim confession 2005

Statute of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Bulgaria 2009

Provisional Regulations for the religious activities of Christians, Muslims and Jews in 1880

Interim regulation for the spiritual management of Muslims in 1895

Statute of the church structure and administration of the Muslims in the Kingdom of Bulgaria in 1919

Statute of the church structure and administration of the Muslims in Bulgaria in 1945

Statute of the church structure and administration of the Muslims in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria 1951

Statute of the Muslim community in 1975

Statute of the Muslim community in 1992

Statute of the Muslim community in 1995

Statute of the Muslim community in 1997

Statute of the Muslim community in 2000

Statute of the Muslim community in 2005

Regulation organization and activities’ Muslim confession 2005-2009

Statute of the ecumenical catholic church of Christ 2012

Laws and decrees

Law on churches in 1949

Law on cults 1949 amended in 1992

Law on the Religious Confessions in 2002

Law of protection of the nation in 1941

Decree No. 125 of the Council of Ministers in 1990 closure of the Bulgarian Committee for the Orthodox Church and cults

Presence of the Orthodox Church in public ceremonies

Law for non-profit associations, 2001

Law on lustration 2014

Decree № 192/1994 of the Council of Ministers on the closure of the Committee of Religious Affairs 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Religious denominations: parliamentary resolution 2002 law change

Closing of the Committee of Orthodox cults and religions, and the establishment of the Directorate of Religious Affairs in 1990

Resolution 209 of 1999 – Approval of the Regulation of the Council of Ministers and its operation

Structural regulations of the ministry of foreign affairs

Regulation on the structure of the Council of Ministers and its operation

Regulation of the Prime Minister and his administration in 2010

Decree no. 319 to limit the use of garments that disguise or conceal the face in 2016 

Case Law of the Constitutional Court, Legitimacy and Merit

Application No. 39023/97 -bul- of the Supreme Council of the Muslim Community against Bulgaria

Application n. 30985/96: Capomufti v. Bulgaria

Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Innocent and others v Bulgaria: Application no. 412/03 and no. 35677/04, decided September 16 2010 

Case Law of the Constitutional Court

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria on the constitutionality of the law on cults of 1949

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria n. 4/1992, recourse of the National Assembly of Bulgaria

Judgment Constitutional Court n. 1 of 23.11.2010 [on Local sections of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Bulgarian Patriarchate, not subject to re-register]

Decision n.5 of 11.06.1992

Decision 2/1998 on the framework Convention on minorities and the Bulgarian Constitution

Supreme Administrative Court, judgment n 4816, Sept. 21. 1999 Case No 2697/99

Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) Ordinance № 6300, October 18 2000

Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) definition case № 3108 July 16, 2002

Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) judgment in 2919, April 28, 2001 due to n. 8194/99

Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) judgment 9184, October 16, 2003, case no. 6747/02 

Bodies And Church Properties

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Return church property Catholic Church in 1992

Property law and land use

Law on restitution of expropriated property and urban planning

Restitution of confiscated land, 2006

Law on denationalization 2007

Law on the compensation of the owners of nationalized property, 2010

Law on the restitution of forests and forest lands, 2009

Restoring of property confiscated from the Catholic Church with the decree n. 88 of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Bulgaria March 12, 1953 (unpublished)

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Application reads return church property

Rules for the Implementation of the ownership and use of agricultural land

Issuance of a certificate for the presence of restitution claims for property owned by the city – Application reference for credit refund

Case Law

Decision on assets confiscated from the Catholic Church, 2000 

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Laws and decrees

Social insurance for the clergy

Budget 2004 Orthodox Church

Taxation Law 2006 individuals financing confessions

Health insurance worship foreign ministers

Health care of the clergy in 2006

Exemption from local taxes for religious houses

Law on Local Government and Local Administration abstract

Property act 1993 Abstract

Property act 1999

Property act 1999 amended in 2009 abstract

Property act 1999 amended in 2009 

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Religious assistance

Ban on religious propaganda for the military

Religious freedom armed forces

Law on Bulgarian citizens residing abroad

Law to regulate use of the burqa in 2016 

Cemeteries

Decree for cemeteries and ritual burial on the territory of the municipality of Sofia

Regulation No. 21 on the hygiene requirements for the construction and management of the cemetery, disposal and transfer of the deceased

Ordinance n.2 on April 21, 2011 Health for burial and disposal and transportation of the deceased

Decision, n. 53 taken in a meeting of the city council of Tryavna 2008 appendix: protocol n. 4

Order on the structure and management of the cemetery and dining ritual inside the Yambol

Decree for cemeteries and burial activity on the territory of the municipality of Sofia 

Measures

Anti-discrimination law, 2004

Law against discrimination 2006

Decree Law on Gender Equality in 1944

Law on political and civil Rehabilitation of persons persecuted 2010 

Conscientious Objection

Conscientious objectors

Case law

Decision № 11820/2002, on religious clothing

Emigration and labour

Laws and decrees

Labour Code 1987

Law on bulgarian people living outside the country

Law on the budget of state social insurance for the year 2004

Social security code 2003 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

State Agency for Bulgarian people living outside the contry

Breakdown voices of salaries and wages

Wages and commercial activities

Commercial law 2003 

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

Laws and decrees

Education Act 1954

Higher Education Law

Education Act 1891 abstract

Primary Education Act 1991 as amended in 2012

Instruction no. 2 on the teaching of religion 

Family

Laws and decrees

Civil registration in the Republic of Bulgaria amended in 2014

Family Code 1968

Family Code abstract 1992

Family Code 2003

Annotation in the register of civil status in 2013

Ordinance no. 2/1990 which regulates terms and procedures for the artificial interruption of pregnancy

Health act 2010

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Laws and decrees

Decree-Law of the People’s Court for the punishment of crimes resulting from the entry of Bulgaria into the war in World War II 1945

Law on the execution of the sentence

Crimes against the citizens’ rights abstract

Codes

Penal code 1968

Criminal code 1951 as amended in 1968

Criminal Code 1968 as amended in 2004

Criminal Code 1968 as amended in 2005

Criminal Code 1968 as amended in 2011

Criminal Code 1968 as amended in 2014

Criminal Code 2010

Criminal Code in force

Museums, Libraries, Archives and Cultural Heritage

Laws and decrees

Heritage Conservation Act in 2009

Heritage Conservation Act in 2016 

Communication

Laws and decrees

Radio and Television Law