With increasing frequency, due to changes in economic conditions the parties to commercial transactions encounter difficulties in fulfilling their assumed obligations. For those parties whose obligations remain enforceable (i.e., have not become objectively impossible to enforce, as in, e.g., the
On March 11, 2022, a bill was introduced to amend the Renewable Energy Act (REA) with the aim of simplifying the administrative procedure pertinent to building power generation facilities for self-consumption using renewable energy sources with a rated capacity of
In connection with the wave of refugees fleeing the territory of Ukraine, the European Council adopted Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/382 of 4 March 2022 establishing the existence of a mass influx of displaced persons from Ukraine within the meaning
The Supreme Court of Cassation has found a court practice to be controversial and has thus initiated a statutory interpretation case on ‘Circumstances a court must examine and take into consideration while hearing claims in proceedings under article 536(1) of
By its Ruling No. 3/24.02.2022 on Constitutional Court Case No. 16/2021, the Bulgarian Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the provisions of §1(1) of the Law on Supplementing the Property Act (LSPA) (Promulgated in State Gazette No. 46/2006 last supplemented SG No.
With interpretative decision from 21.01.2022 in interpretative case No 5/2019 of the Common Assembly of the Civil and Commercial Colleges of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) was answered the question from which moment does the term under art. 147,
With decision from 24.11.2021 the Bulgarian Council of Ministers has extended the emergency epidemic situation in the Republic of Bulgaria until 31.03.2022. For this period the restrictions for entering into Bulgaria remain, as wells as the requirements for a green
On the 16th and 17th of September 2021 was held an Anniversary conference in honour of 110 years from the birth of acad. Lyuben Vassilev on the topic “Recent problems of private law”, organized by the Institute for State and
By request of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria the Bulgarian Constitutional court has initiated constitutional case No 11/2021 for establishing the unconstitutional character of art. 148, para. 16 and art. 178, para. 3 of the Territorial Planning Act
The changes in the Bulgarian Civil Procedure Code, which entered into effect on 30.06.2021, provide an opportunity for electronic serving of documents. For this purpose, the party in the court proceedings can choose to receive court documents and subpoena via
