Publications
LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS FOR PROMOTING THE LOCAL FILM INDUSTRY, INCLUDING 25% CASH REBATES FOR ELIGIBLE COSTS FOR PRODUCTION AID
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Subject:Telecommunications Law. Media Law
Published at:IRIS 2021-1
Edition:European Audiovisual Observatory Newsletter
In his second piece for the European Audiovisual Observatory Newsletter, Nikola Stoychev, assisted by Christian Ivanov, summarizes the Bill to amend and supplement the Film Industry Act, envisaging various incentives for the promotion of the local film industry, including a new cash rebate aid scheme for the production of audiovisual works, in accordance with Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014.
*This publication is also available in German and French.
EU Competition Law and the Digital Economy: Protecting Free and Fair Competition in an Age of Technological (R)evolution
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Subject:Competition Law
Published at:The XXIX FIDE Congress in The Hague, 2020 Congress Publications, Vol. 3
The proceedings of the XXIX FIDE (International Federation for European Law) Congress in The Hague in 2020 are published in four volumes. This book (Vol. 3) contains the reports of the General Rapporteurs (Nicolas Petit and Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel), the Institutional Rapporteur (Thomas Kramler) and the National Rapporteurs on Topic 3: EU Competition Law and the Digital Economy: Protecting Free and Fair Competition in an Age of Technological (R)evolution. The National Rapporteur for Bulgaria is DPC senior associate and renowned competition expert Donka Stoyanova.
Some Clarifications Regarding the Issuance of Qualified Electronic Signatures at the Employer’s Expense
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:https://www.tita.bg/
In the situation of a pandemic making remote work the new normal, the qualified electronic signature (QES) has become an essential tool enabling lots of people to do their jobs. Martin Zahariev, PhD offers some useful clarifications to employers in connection with the issuance of QES to their employees.
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
Competition authority finds that proposals for amendment to the Radio and Television Act would restrict competition
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Subject:Competition Law
Published at:IRIS 2020-10
Edition:European Audiovisual Observatory Newsletter
In his first piece for the European Audiovisual Observatory Newsletter, where he was invited to be a regular contributor, Nikola Stoychev, assisted by Christian Ivanov, summarizes the decision of the Bulgarian competition authority stating that the the introduction of quotas for Bulgarian music through amendment of the Radio and Television Act would restrict competition on the media market.
*This publication is also available in German and French.
ARE EMPLOYERS ALLOWED TO TEST THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR COVID-19?
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:www.tita.bg
The alarming and dynamic increase in the number of COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks has seriously raised the question of what measures could be taken in order to curb the spread of the infectious disease in the workplace. May employees be tested for COVID-19? May this be introduced by the employer as a mandatory requirement? May the staff be notified in case of a sick employee? May employers trace contact persons among staff? Do such measures contravene data protection regulations or other requirements? This analysis tries to give some useful guidelines in connection with the above questions.
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING – NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE AS A STANDARD FOR PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Academic Publishing House "Za bukvite - O Pismeneh"
Edition:KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND 21st CENTURY HUMANISM - The 18th International Scientific Conference Sofia, 1st – 2nd November 2020
Abstract: This analysis aims to clarify the nature of the principles of personal data processing (the Principles). To achieve this goal, the following tasks have been performed: (1) the emergence and evolution of the Principles in historical context are analyzed; (2) their content and practical significance are clarified; (3) a distinction is made between the Principles and the concept of a legal principle; (4) a comparative analysis is carried out with the laws of other countries, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act. As a result of the research, the thesis is substantiated that the Principles have the nature of legal norms of general significance and have established themselves as a kind of standard for personal data protection.
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
On the Types of Electronic Signatures and Their Practical Application in Modern Business Relations
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:http://epi.bg/
Edition:Commercial and Contractual Law Digest, 2020, book 11, p. 34
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated digitalisation in all spheres of public life. Many companies have had to move to remote work with almost no preparation, limit their physical meetings with current and potential contractors, and switch fully or partly to electronic document turnover. Some questions were urgently raised of how one can sign remotely, so that the various business processes in the organizations would not be blocked and at the same time a certain level of legal certainty would be achieved, which would guarantee the rights and interests of those signing remotely. Although the legal framework of the electronic document and the electronic signature is not new, but has been operating in Bulgaria and the EU for years, it turned out to be insufficiently familiar and clear for most of the companies. This is the main reason for this analysis, which aims to explore the different possibilities for electronic signing of documents in the ordinary course of business of private entities.
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
Combating the second wave in COVID cases across Europe: Restrictions in place and new support measures for companies and employees
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Subject:Employment and Social Security Law
Published at:https://www.meritas.org/
Europe is facing the rise of the second Covid wave with a new series of restrictions and lockdowns. Rositsa Vasileva and her colleagues from the Meritas European Employment Group provide a useful overview of these restrictions, along with the relevant support measures, covering 14 countries.
GDPR Implementation Series - Bulgaria
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Lexxion
Edition:European Data Protection Law Review 3/2020
Almost 2.5 years since GDPR became effective, many things have changed. Most importantly, the privacy-awareness has drastically increased among both companies and citizens. Find out what happened during this period in Bulgaria (key legislative changes and most noteworthy cases) in the latest report by our experts Martin Zahariev and Radoslava Makshutova.
The Legal Nature of Domain Names
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Subject:ICT & IP Law
Published at:https://www.tita.bg/
*This publication is in Bulgarian
The Right to be Present at Trial in Criminal Proceedings under Bulgarian Legislation
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Subject:Dispute resolution
Published at:Lex Localis
Edition:Enhancing the Right to be Present
The Book “Enhancing the Right to be Present” elaborated within the PRESENT project addresses the direct need of training and receiving insight on the changes that are going to be incorporated in the legislation of EU Member States in order to transpose Directive (EU) 2016/343. The PRESENT partnership unites 6 partners from 6 countries (Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, Slovakia, Cyprus and Portugal) with diverse focus and a wealth of expertise. The publications featured in the book address various topics concerning the right to be present at trial and the presumption of innocence in different Member States. Prof. George Dimitrov and Radoslava Makshutova were part of the Bulgarian team who contributed to the monograph with the article "The Right to be Present at Trial in Criminal Proceedings under Bulgarian Legislation."
Mission (Im)Possible: Where GDPR Meets Commercial Arbitration
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Edition:Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration 2020
State Aid Programs against the consequences of the COVID-19-Pandemic for Businesses
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Published at:www.ibanet.org
Edition:IBA Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee
This Country Overview of Aid Programs in Selected European Countries was prepared by IBA's Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee with the support of IBA European Regional Forum (ERF) and aims to allow lawyers around the globe to better serve their international clients – and to allow international companies to understand the specificities of national and regional programmes available in the jurisdictions in which they do business.
Covid-19 pandemic: The reactions of competition authorities to the Covid-19 pandemic – an IBA contribution
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Subject:Competition Law
Published at:https://www.ibanet.org/COVID-19/Home.aspx
Zoya Todorova, Partner, and Rositsa Vasileva, Associate at Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. (DPC), have contributed to an extensive survey conducted by the International Bar Association Antitrust Committee. The survey, covering 44 jurisdictions worldwide, aimed to examine the ways in which the overnight change of the global reality affected the antitrust world, by gathering in a single document a compilation of competition agency reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic.
On the Admissibility of Certain Data Processing Operations of the Employers during Covid-19 Pandemic
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:https://www.tita.bg/
In the emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, employers face many challenges - from seeking to maintain employment and minimize losses to compliance with established anti-epidemic measures and protection of the lives and health of their employees. Martin Zahariev, PhD, examines several processing operations related to counteracting the spread of COVID-19 at the workplace and their admissibility from GDPR and Bulgarian law perspective.
*This publication is in Bulgarian
World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies, Chapter on Bulgaria
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Subject:Intellectual Property Law
Published at:Thomson Reuters
Edition:World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies, Release 2019-6
The 6th release of this useful book for IP professionals published in December 2019, features updated chapter for Bulgaria contributed by DPC's leading expert Bilyana Angelova. It contains helpful guidance on patents and utility models, copyright and trademarks, industrial designs, geographical indications, domain names and trade secrets and describes the nuances of the Bulgarian legislation.
The publication is realized in collaboration with the Center for International Legal Studies.
The Myth of the General Invalidity of the Waiver of Future Right. Set-off in the Light of the Waiver of Future Right
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Subject:Dispute resolution
Published at:http://epi.bg/
Edition:Commercial and Contractual Law Digest, 2019, book 8, book 9
Abstract:
The problem of the validity of the waiver of a future right through a contractual clause has great practical importance. Bulgarian case law and legal theory are consistent in the view that the waiver of future right is void. This stance is problematic in the context of rapidly developing and complicated economic relations. If we rephrase the US Supreme Court Justice Mr Holmes: Тhis is a wrong interpretation that “no lapse of time or respectable array of opinion should make us hesitate to correct”. The law should be applied in a way that is appropriate for its time.
Bulgarian applicable substantive law does not contain a general rule stipulating that a waiver of future rights is invalid. The general legal provision which sets out the rules on invalidity of contracts does not in principle forbid the waiver of future rights (it doesn’t even mention it). However, Bulgarian law explicitly proclaims the freedom of contract as an important general principle.
It is true that there are several specific rules where, under specific circumstances, a waiver of a future right is considered invalid. Such provisions are found in various substantive and procedural regulations, such as the Civil Procedure Code, Obligations and Contracts Act, Labour Code, Consumer Protection Act, Ownership Act and others.
However, if the waiver of a future right was invalid as a general rule, why would we find so many explicit rules rendering the waiver invalid in specific cases? Indeed, there are also a number of situations where the law does treat the waiver of future rights as valid. It’s apparent that where the law explicitly states that a waiver of a future right is invalid, it’s just an example of an exception to the general rule – that a waiver of future rights is admissible.
The general invalidity of the waiver of a future right concept can easily be tested by applying a specific legal institute. If we take the set-off, in some cases the debtor may be interested in maintaining its receivable due to the fact that set-off may be less favourable to it (for example, if its receivable bears interest). Under the Bulgarian law, the set-off takes effect from the moment the set-off was possible. Thus, when a set-off statement is issued, the interest would be discharged. Therefore, the party whose receivable bears interest will benefit from introducing a contractual clause which disallows the right to set-off.
Many waiver of a future right clauses can be found in public-private partnership contracts (e.g. Article 31.1 of the Sofia Airport Concession Agreement). Such clauses are essential for the viability of the modern forms of public-private partnership.
In fact, the waiver of future rights is often at the heart of the contractual relationship between the parties and frequently is a part of the contractual consideration - the obligations that a party undertakes under a particular contract in order to induce the other party to the contract to undertake correlated obligations. This makes it clear that the thesis of the invalidity of the waiver of future rights does not take into account the economic needs and business purposes that underpin the contractual relations in the civil and commercial turnover.
*This article is in Bulgarian.
Multisport Card and Data Protection
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:https://www.tita.bg/
*This publication is in Bulgarian
Cameras at Every Corner
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Iconomist magazine
Edition:Edition 48
Arbitrability of Construction Contracts Entered into with Public Authorities: The Bulgarian Perspective
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Subject:Dispute resolution
Published at:Wolters Kluwer, Construction Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe
Data protection aspects of artificial intelligence in commercial arbitration
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Subject:Dispute resolution
Published at:Academic Publishing House "Za bukvite - O Pismeneh"
Edition:Contemporary Strategies and Innovations in The Knowledge Management, 4/2018
The digital tax at the crossroads between economics and politics
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:CIO magazin
Edition:#11
Author: Maria Dinkova
Comments: Desislava Krusteva
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
A GLOBAL ROADMAP TO PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION, Asia Pacific, Europe & USA, Second Edition
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Meritas®
DPC is pleased to be the contributor for Bulgaria in this Second Edition of “A Global Roadmap to Personal Data Protection” put together by Meritas' law firms worldwide. Desislava Krusteva, Partner and Head of IT & Data Protection practice at DPC, highlights recent privacy developments in the country on page 74-75.
Hristo Nihrizov's comments on the recent developments of the Telecom market in Bulgaria
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Subject:Telecommunications Law. Media Law
Published at:Iconomist magazine
Edition:45
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
Debt Assignment (cession) and Data Protection
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:e-magazine "Taxes TITA"
Edition:ed. 121/2019
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
The State should work for the creation of knowledge among citizens how to communicate with institutions online
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Legal World
*The interview is in Bulgarian
CPC has the right to doubt, but it must investigate carefully
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Subject:Corporate Law. Mergers & Acquisitions
Published at:Iconomist magazine
Edition:Edition 42/2019
Zoya Todorova comments the decision of the Bulgarian Commission for Protection of Competition to carry out an in-depth study of the proposed acquisition of CEZ' business in Bulgaria by Eurohold in the context of the EU guidance and practice regarding non-horizontal mergers
* The interview is in Bulgarian
ON THE ROLES OF A “CONTROLLER” AND A “PROCESSOR” IN PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Collection “KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND 21ST CENTURY HUMANISM”, 1 Nov 2019
BG/EN
EU's Data Privacy Reg Still Has Arbitration Attys Confused
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Law360, NY, USA
Edition:www.law360.com
Author: Caroline Simson
Comments: Martin Zahariev
Before the machines became smarter
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Iconomist magazine
Edition:Edition 35
GDPR Issues in Commercial Arbitration and How to Mitigate Them
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Subject:Dispute resolution
Published at:Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Study on the enforcement of State aid rules and decisions by national courts. Country report Bulgaria
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Subject:Competition Law
Data Protection in Commercial Arbitration: In the Light of GDPR
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Staff Recruitment and Data Protection
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:http://www.epi.bg/
Edition:Labour and Law Digest, 2019, b.7
*This publication is in Bulgarian
FIDIC Claims and Dispute Resolution
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Subject:Real Estate Law. Construction Law
Published at:http://www.epi.bg/
Edition:Ownership and Law Digest, 2019, b.7
*This publication is in Bulgarian
What You Should Know About the New Contract Forms of FIDIC
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Subject:Real Estate Law. Construction Law
Published at:http://www.epi.bg/
Edition:Ownership and Law Digest, 2019, b.2
*This publication is in Bulgarian
Legal and practical challenges to e-commerce related to meeting the requirements for recording and reporting sales and the management softwares
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Subject:Tax Law
Published at:TITA
Edition:ed. 118
*This publication is in Bulgarian
"Nation to hack"
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Iconomist magazine
Edition:29th edition
Bulgarian Chapter - The Legal 500: Data Protection & Cyber Security Country Comparative Guide
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:The In-House Lawyer Magazine
Meritas - Employment, Benefits & Immigration Law Group Brochure
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Subject:Employment and Social Security Law
Edition:Meritas
Desislava Krusteva comments on the regulations on personal data and fiscal devices in Ordinance № N-18
Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:"CIO" magazine, 4th edition, April 2019
About the Legitimate Interest as a Legal Ground for Personal Data Processing
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Commercial and Contract Law Magazine, Book 4/2019, Trud i Pravo, Sofia, 2019
*This publication is in Bulgarian.
Some Peculiarities in the Processing of Personal Data by Public Authorities
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Collection "Za Bukvite"
*This publication is in Bulgarian
* The publication is part of the collection "Za Bukvite", "European citizens and intellectual property: perception, awareness and behaviour "
Preparation for take-off. The concession procedure of Sofia Airport attracted strong bidders however the choice should not be limited to the price only
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Subject:Public Procurement
Published at:iconomist.bg
Edition:issue 16
Author: Emil Petrov
Commented by: Hristo Nihrizov
*This article is in Bulgarian
Internet Trap
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Subject:ICT Law & IPR Law
Published at:The Economist
Edition:14th Edition
Author: Emil Petrov
Comments: Martin Zahariev
* This article is in Bulgarian
Amendments in Bulgarian Personal Data Protection Legislation - Key Changes
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Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:tita.bg
Edition:127
Data Protection in Bulgaria. Overview
Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Thomson Reuters | Data Privacy Advisor
Edition:Thomson Reuters
Monitoring of Employees in the Workplace
Subject:ICT Law. Privacy and Data Protection
Published at:Meritas
Edition:European & Middle East Guide
Enforceability of Rental and Lease Contracts in Public Sale of Real Estates
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Subject:Real Estate Law. Construction Law
Published at:Дайджест "Собственост и право", 2018 г., кн. 11, стр. 37
* This publication is in Bulgarian.
Discussion: New Requirements of tax legislation for e-shops
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Subject:Tax Law
Published at:TiTA
Edition:TiTA
* This publication is in Bulgarian.