(New, SG No. 92/2002) (1) Anyone who requests or accepts a gift, or any undue benefit, or accepts a proposal or promise for a gift or benefit, in order to exert influence over an official or a foreign official in decision-making in relation to his/her service, shall be punished by imprisonment of up to six years and a fine from up to BGN five thousand. (2) Anyone who proposes, promises, or gives a gift or any undue benefit to a person alleging he/she might exert the influence under Paragraph 1, shall be punished by imprisonment of up to three years and a fine of up to BGN three thousand. Article 304c (New, SG No. 74/2015) The punishment under the previous articles shall also be imposed when the gift or benefit was proposed, promised or given to another person with the consent of the official, the foreign official, or the person who claims that he/she can exert influence. Article 305 (Amended, SG No. 92/2002) (1) The punishments for bribery under the preceding paragraphs shall also be imposed to an arbiter or expert, appointed by a court, institution, enterprise or organisation where they perpetrate such acts in connection with the tasks entrusted to them, as well as on the person who proposes, promises, or gives such a bribe. (2) Punishments for bribery under the preceding articles shall be imposed to a defence counsel of any party in judicial proceedings where he/she commits an act, as stated above, to help adjudicate to the benefit of the adversary or to the detriment of their client pending criminal or civil proceedings at stake, as well to the individual who proposes, promises or gives such bribe. Article 305a (New, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG No. 92/2002) A person who mediates for any of the acts under the preceding articles, if the perpetrated act does not represent a graver crime, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years and a fine of up to BGN five thousand. Article 306 (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 92/2002) A person who has proposed, promised, or given a bribe shall not be punished: if he has been blackmailed by the official, arbiter or by the expert to do so and if of his own accord he has immediately informed the authorities. Article 307 (Amended, SG No. 51/2000) A person who with premeditation creates a situation or conditions conducive to the offering, giving or receiving of a bribe for the purpose of causing harm to a person who gives or receives the bribe, shall be punished for provocation to give or take bribe by imprisonment for up to three years. Article 307a