written request from the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications, the
Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Interior, and/or the State Agency for National Security, the
Commission shall provide the information referred to in Paragraph (1) for the needs of state policy,
planning, protection of national security and defence.
(4) (Renumbered from Paragraph (3), SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) When requesting
the information referred to in Paragraph (1), the Commission shall require from the undertakings which
provide the said information to designate, for each particular case, expressly and in writing the part of
the information provided which constitutes a business secret.
(5) (Renumbered from Paragraph (4), SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) The members of the
Commission and the employees of the administration thereof shall be obligated not to disseminate the
information obtained under Paragraph (1) in case the said information has been designated as
constituting a business secret.
(6) (Renumbered from Paragraph (5), SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) Upon a reasoned
request on the part of the European Commission or of a regulatory authority of a Member State of the
European Union, the Commission shall provide the information as is necessary for the exercise of the
powers vested therein.
(7) (Renumbered from Paragraph (6) and amended, SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) If the
information referred to in Paragraph (1) is provided to the Ministry of Transport, Information
Technology and Communications, the European Commission, or to regulatory authorities of Member
States of the European Union, the Commission shall require from the recipients to safeguard the
business secret in conformity with Paragraph 4.
(8) (Renumbered from Paragraph (7), SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) The undertakings
referred to in Paragraph (1) may, by a reasoned written request, state that the information provided
thereby to the Commission must not be provided by the European Commission to regulatory authorities
of Member States of the European Union.
(9) (Renumbered from Paragraph (8), SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) Upon provision of
information referred to in Paragraph (1) to the European Commission or to regulatory authorities of
Member States of the European Union, the Commission shall notify the said provision to the
undertakings which have provided the said information.
Article 41. (1) In accordance with the provisions of the Access to Public Information Act, the
Commission shall provide, upon request, information received from the undertakings implementing
electronic communications.
(2) (Supplemented, SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) The terms and procedure for access to
the information referred to in Paragraph (1) shall be established by the Commission by a statutory
administrative act which shall be promulgated in the State Gazette.
Section IV
Interaction and Consultations with European Commission, with
Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications
and with National Regulatory Authorities of Member States of
European Union
(Heading amended, SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011)
Article 41a. (New, SG No. 105/2011, effective 29.12.2011) The Commission shall interact with
the European Commission, with the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications and
with the regulatory authorities of the Member States of the European Union in a transparent manner for
the development of the single market of the European Union and the regulatory means and the