Electronic Communications Act
Promulgated, SG No. 41/22.05.2007, amended and supplemented, SG No. 109/20.12.2007,
effective 1.01.2008, amended, SG No. 36/4.04.2008, amended and supplemented, SG No.
43/29.04.2008, amended, SG No. 69/5.08.2008, amended and supplemented, SG No. 17/6.03.2009, SG
No. 35/12.05.2009, effective 12.05.2009, SG No. 37/19.05.2009, effective 19.05.2009, SG No.
42/5.06.2009; Decision No. 3 of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria of 4.06.2009 - SG
No. 45/16.06.2009; amended, SG No. 82/16.10.2009, effective 16.10.2009, SG No. 89/10.11.2009,
effective 10.11.2009, amended and supplemented, SG No. 93/24.11.2009, SG No. 12/12.02.2010, SG
No. 17/2.03.2010, effective 10.05.2010, SG No. 27/9.04.2010, effective 9.04.2010, amended, SG No.
97/10.12.2010, effective 10.12.2010, amended and supplemented, SG No. 105/29.12.2011, effective
29.12.2011, SG No. 38/18.05.2012, effective 1.07.2012, amended, SG No. 44/12.06.2012, effective
1.07.2012, SG No. 82/26.10.2012, effective 26.11.2012, SG No. 15/15.02.2013, effective 1.01.2014,
supplemented, SG No. 27/15.03.2013, SG No. 28/19.03.2013, amended, SG No. 52/14.06.2013,
effective 14.06.2013, SG No. 66/26.07.2013, effective 26.07.2013, SG No. 70/9.08.2013, effective
9.08.2013, supplemented, SG No. 11/7.02.2014, effective 7.02.2014, amended, SG No. 53/27.06.2014,
SG No. 61/25.07.2014, effective 25.07.2014, SG No. 98/28.11.2014, effective 28.11.2014, SG No.
14/20.02.2015; Judgment No. 2/12.03.2015 of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria - SG
No. 23/27.03.2015; amended and supplemented, SG No. 24/31.03.2015, effective 31.03.2015, SG No.
29/21.04.2015, amended, SG No. 61/11.08.2015, effective 1.11.2015, SG No. 79/13.10.2015, effective
1.11.2015, SG No. 50/1.07.2016, effective 1.07.2016
Text in Bulgarian: Закон за електронните съобщения
Chapter One
GENERAL DISPOSITIONS
Article 1. (1) This Act regulates the social relations pertaining to the implementation of electronic
communications.
(2) Electronic communications shall be implemented by conveyance, emission, transmission or
reception of signs, signals, written text, image, sound or message of any nature by wire, radio waves,
optical or other electromagnetic medium.
Article 2. This Act shall not apply in respect of the content of the electronic messages conveyed.
Article 3. This Act shall not apply upon implementation of electronic communications:
1. (supplemented, SG No. 109/2007, amended, SG No. 79/2015, effective 1.11.2015) by the
Ministry of Defence, by the Ministry of Interior, by the State Agency for National Security, by the
National Bodyguard Service and by the State Intelligence Agency for their own needs, as well as in
respect of the internal radio-frequency allocation and the determination of the call signs for the service
radio communications of the said ministries and services;
2. (amended, SG No. 89/2009, effective 10.11.2009) by the state bodies and the administrations
thereof in connection with national security.
Chapter Two
PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES
Article 4. (1) The purposes of this Act are:
1. creation of the conditions necessary for the promotion of competition in the implementation of
electronic communications by:
(a) (amended, SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) ensuring that users, including persons with