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Bulgaria

This section offers a summary of the main legislation on transitional justice adopted by the member state and, when available, a pdf with the document, together with the main decisions of national and international tribunals in relation to these measures. This is a non exhaustive list and will be updated and completed in a permanent basis. Finally, we also offer images of the museums that deal with memory issues in each country.

Information

Legislation

 

Main provisions

Year

First rehabilitation law

1989

Law on Amnesty and Release from Serving a Term of Imprisonment

1990

Council of Ministers decree Nº 38, for the Order of Determining One-Time Indemnity to Persons, Repressed for Political Reasons after 1 January 1946

1990

Law on civil resister and objector to the forced labour

1991

Vindication of the Repressed for Political reasons after 9 September 1944 (see text here)

1991

Law on Banks and credit activity

1992

Law for the Restitution of Ownership on Real Estates (see text here)

1992

Law on Temporary Introduction of Some Additional Requirements for the Members of the Governing Bodies of the Scientific Organizations and the Supreme Attestation Commission

1992

Decision of the National Assembly about the Information for the Organization, Methods and Means of the State Security Structures

 1994

Law for the Amendment and Supplement of the Law on Restoring the Property on Nationalized Real Estates

1995

Law on Public Administration

1997

Law on Classified Information

2002

Declaration of the National Assembly for the 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Communist Regime in Bulgaria

2004

 

MAPS

Repressive regime