shall be punished by imprisonment for up to five years and a fine from up to BGN 5,000.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 75/2006) Anyone who, without consent from the
person required by law, detains material carriers containing the object of copyright or a
neighbouring right, amounting to a large-scale value, or who detains a matrix for the
reproduction of such carriers, shall be punished by imprisonment from two to five years and a
fine from BGN 2,000 to 5,000.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 75/2006) If the act under Paragraphs (1) and (2)
has been repeated or considerable damaging consequences have occurred, the punishment shall
be imprisonment from one to six years and a fine from BGN 3,000 to 10,000.
(4) (New, SG No. 75/2006) Where the act under Paragraph 2 amounts to a particularly
large-scale value, the punishment shall be imprisonment from two to eight years and a fine from
BGN 10,000 to 50,000.
(5) (Renumbered from Paragraph 4, SG No. 75/2006) For minor cases the perpetrator shall
be punished under the administrative procedure in compliance with the Copyright and
Neighbouring Rights Act.
(6) (Renumbered from Paragraph 5, amended, SG No. 75/2006) The object of the crime
shall be appropriated in favour of the state, irrespective of the fact whose property it is.
Article 172b
(New, SG No. 75/2006)
(1) Anyone who, without consent from the owner of the exclusive right thereupon, makes
use in commercial operations of a trademark, industrial model, a variety of plant or race of
animal, making the object of said exclusive right, or makes use of a geographical indication or a
counterfeit thereof without a legal justification, shall be punished by imprisonment of up to five
years and a fine from up to BGN 5,000.
(2) Where the act under Paragraph 1 is repeated or significant damages have been caused,
the punishment shall be imprisonment from five to eight years and a fine from BGN 5,000 to
BGN 8,000.
(3) The object of the crime shall be taken to the benefit of the state, irrespective of the fact
whose property it is, and it shall then be destroyed.
Article 173
(1) (Amended, SG No. 10/1993) A person who publishes or uses under his own name or
under a pen name the work of another person in the field of science, literature or arts or a
considerable part thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to two years or by a fine
from BGN one hundred to three hundred
(2) (Amended, SG No. 81/1999) By the same punishment shall also be punished the
person who presents for registration or registers in his own name invention, workable model or
industrial design of another person.
Article 174
(Amended, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 81/1999)
A person who, by abusing his official position, gets himself included as a co-author of an
invention, workable model or industrial design or of a work of science, literature or arts, without
having taken part in the creative work for its elaboration, shall be punished by imprisonment for
up to two years or by a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred, as well as by public