24. (New, SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 75/2006) An "instrument of payment" is a
physical object, which allows, alone or in combination with any other means, the transfer of
moneys or monetary values;
25. (New, SG No. 38/2007, amended, SG No. 101/2017) "Computer network" is a group
of interconnected IT systems or devices which allows for the exchange of computer data;
26. (New, SG No. 38/2007, amended, SG No. 101/2017) "Computer programme" is a
sequence of machine instructions which can make a computer system perform certain functions;
27. (New, SG No. 38/2007, amended, SG No. 101/2017) "Computer virus" is a computer
programme which spreads automatically and against the will or without the knowledge of the
persons using the IT systems and is intended for bringing IT systems or computer networks into
a state that is undesirable by the people using them or for production of undesired results;
28. (New, SG No. 38/2007, amended, SG No. 74/2015) "Pornographic material" is
material, produced in any way, which is indecent, unacceptable or incompatible with the public
moral, with contents that expresses real or simulated molestation, copulation, sexual intercourse,
including sodomy, masturbation, sexual sadism or masochism, or lascivious exhibition of the
sexual organs of a person;
29. (New, SG No. 107/2014, effective 1.01.2015) "Mandatory contributions for public
social security or health insurance large in size" shall mean contributions exceeding BGN three
thousand, and "mandatory contributions for public social security or health insurance particularly
large in size" shall mean contributions exceeding BGN twelve thousand;
30. (New, SG No. 74/2015) "Pornographic performance" means a live or real-time
exhibition aimed at an audience that entails a lascivious exhibition of the sexual organs of a
person who has not reached 18 years of age, or the engagement of such a person in a real or
simulated molestation, copulation, sexual intercourse, including sodomy, masturbation, sexual
sadism or masochism;
31. (New, SG No. 16/2019) The crime is perpetrated "in a situation of domestic violence"
if it is preceded by the systematic exercise of physical, sexual or psychological violence, placing
in financial dependence, forced restriction of the personal life, personal freedom and personal
rights and is carried out against a relative of ascending or descending line, a spouse or a divorced
spouse, a person with whom he/she has a child, a person with whom he/she is or was in a de
facto cohabitation or a person with whom he/she lives or lived in the same household.
Special Provision
Article 94
The provisions of the General Part of this Code shall also apply to crimes envisaged in
other laws.
SPECIAL PART
Chapter One
CRIMES AGAINST THE REPUBLIC
Section I