10. "Next-of-kin" are the spouses, relatives in ascending or descending line (including
adopted children and step children), brothers, sisters and their spouses, and collateral relatives up
to the fourth degree;
11. "Time of war" is the time from the declaration of war or the actual commencement of
military operations to the declaration for their termination;
12. (New, SG No. 28/1982) A crime is committed "by two or more persons" where in the
perpetration itself at least two persons have taken part;
13. (New, SG No. 28/1982) International protection enjoy persons for whom such
protection has been provided under international agreement, to which the Republic of Bulgaria is
a party;
14. (New, SG No. 62/1997, amended, SG No. 21/2000) "Taxes of large amount" shall be
those exceeding BGN three thousand, and "taxes of particularly large amount" shall be those
exceeding BGN twelve thousand;
15. (New, SG No. 7/1999) "A foreign official" shall be any person performing:
a) duties in a foreign country's office or agency;
b) functions assigned by a foreign country, inclusive of a foreign state-owned enterprise or
organisation;
c) (supplemented, SG No. 92/2002) duties, assignments or tasks delegated by an
international organisation, as well as holding office in an international parliamentary assembly or
an international court of justice;
d) (new, SG No. 74/2015) functions of an arbitrator assigned in accordance with the law of
a foreign country;
16. (New, SG No. 21/2000, repealed, SG No. 75/2006);
17. (New, SG No. 21/2000, supplemented, SG No. 92/2002, repealed, SG No. 75/2006);
18. (New, SG No. 21/2000, supplemented, SG No. 92/2002, repealed, SG No. 75/2006);
19. (New, SG No. 21/2000, repealed, SG No. 75/2006;
20. (New, SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 27/2009) An "organized criminal group" is
the permanent structured association of three or more individuals intended for the agreed
perpetration, inside the country or abroad, of crime punishable by imprisonment of more than
three years. An association shall also be considered structured in the absence of any formal
distribution of functions among its participants, duration of their involvement or any developed
internal structure;
21. (New, SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 38/2007, amended and supplemented, SG
No. 101/2017) "Information system" means any individual device or a group of interconnected
or similar devices, which in pursuance of a specific program provides, or one whose components
provides, automatic data processing, as well as the computer data stored, processed, retrieved or
transmitted by/from such a device or a group of devices with the aim of operation with such data,
and the use, protection and maintenance thereof;
22. (New, SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 38/2007, SG No. 101/2017) "Computer
data" means any representation of facts, information or concepts in a form that allows its
processing in information systems, including a programme that is capable of making a given
information system to perform a specific function;
23. (New, SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 101/2017) A "provider of computerized
information services" is any legal entity or natural person that provides the opportunity for
communication by means of an information system or that processes or stores computer data
about such communication service or about its users;