Newsroom: August 2020

At the end of July, 2020, a bill (the “Bill”) for amendment to the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act (the “FRBA”) was submitted with the National Assembly. The ...

Many amendments of the Gambling act were published in State Gazette no. 69 of August 4 2020. The most important of them is the change of the monitoring body and the additional requirements for obtaining a license.   Monitoring body  The ...

The Ordinance on the long-term secondments abroad of the Council of Ministers from 2000 (the “Ordinance”) is amended since 31.07.2020 as follows: The travel expenses: The travel expenses will be ...

Background to the dispute   The Apple Group’s global business is structured around key functional areas. Apple Operations Europe (AOE) and the subsidiary Apple Sales International (ASI) have set up Irish branches.    The Irish tax authorities ...

On July 23th, 2020, a bill for amending and supplementing of the Consumer Protection Act (the “Bill”) was submitted for voting in the National Assembly. The Bill proposes for introduction ...

On 25th of June 2020, the Court of the European Union (“CJEU”) resolved on obligations to provide information regarding alternative dispute resolution on websites. The proceeding is initiated between Verbraucherzentrale ...

The Medical Devices in Human Medicine Act (the “Act”) clarifies the provisions regarding jointly-coordinated control proceedings over drugs to be conducted between the Bulgarian Drug Agency (the “BDA”) and the ...