communicated over the telephone, telegraph, via a computer network or via another
telecommunication means, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to two years.
(4) (New, SG No. 101/2017) The punishment under Paragraph 3 shall also be imposed
where an object of the act is computer data sent within one or among multiple information
systems, including electromagnetic emissions from the information system.
(5) (New, SG No. 38/2007, renumbered from Paragraph 4, supplemented, SG No.
101/2017) Where the act under paragraphs 3 and 4 has been committed with a venal goal in mind
or considerable damages have been caused, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to three
years and a fine of up to BGN 5,000.
Article 171a
(New, SG No. 26/2010)
(1) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 24/2015, effective 31.03.2015) A person who
unlawfully acquires, stores, discloses or disseminates data as those collected, processed, kept or
used as per the Electronic Communications Act, shall be punished by imprisonment up to three
years or probation.
(2) If the act under paragraph 1 was committed for a venal goal, the punishment shall be
imprisonment from one to six years.
Section VI
Crimes Against the Labour Rights of the Citizens
Article 172
(Amended and supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG No. 1/1991, SG No.
10/1993)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 10/1993, amended and supplemented, SG No. 92/2002) A person
who intentionally impedes another to take a job, or compels him to leave a job because of his
nationality, race, religion, social origin, membership in a trade union or another type of
organization, political party, organisation, movement or coalition with political objective, or
because of his or of his next-of-kin political convictions, shall be punished by imprisonment for
up to three years or by a fine of up to BGN 5,000.
(2) An official who fails to carry out an order or a court decision that has entered into force
for re-instating at work of a wrongly dismissed worker or employee, shall be punished
imprisonment for up to three years.
Section VII
Crimes Against Intellectual Property
(Title amended, SG No. 50/1995)
Article 172a
(New, SG No. 50/1995)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 75/2006) A person who makes records,
reproduces, distributes, broadcasts or transmits, or makes any other use the object of a copyright
or neighbouring right without the consent of the owner of holder of such right as required by law,