Balgarianovinite.com Parliament on Friday adopted conclusively an Act on Counteracting Corruption among Persons Holding Public Office, which establishes a new Anti-Corruption Commission. The Commission’s members are to be elected within one month of the Act’s entry into force.
One member will be elected by the National Assembly, one will be appointed by the President, and one member each will be elected by the Supreme Court of Cassation, the Supreme Administrative Court and the Supreme Bar Council.
The Anti-Corruption Commission Chair will be determined by lot from among the elected and appointed members. The Chair and the members of the Commission will take office simultaneously on the date on which the Commission’s composition is completed. If any of the competent authorities fails to elect or appoint a member from its quota, the Commission will be constituted provided that no fewer than three members have been elected or appointed.
For up to three months after the new Commission takes office, activities related to countering, detecting, investigating and preventing corruption offences, analysing asset and interest declarations of persons holding public office, and establishing conflicts of interest involving such persons will continue to be carried out under the existing procedure by the competent authorities.
After that period expires, the existing civil-service relationships of the civil servants at the Corruption Prevention Directorate, the Public Register Directorate and the Conflict of Interest Directorate at the National Audit Office will not be terminated. Instead, they will be transferred into civil-service relationships at the Commission under the Civil Servants Act.
Until independent operational-search units are set up within the Commission, the Ministry of Interior will carry out operational-search activities under the Civil Servants Act and under the Ministry of Interior Act.
Within six months of the establishment of independent operational-search units at the Commission, the Interior Ministry’s General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime will transfer to the Commission all active operational case files handled by the Directorate and related to countering corruption.
Within two months of the Commission taking office, all automated and non-automated information databases created, maintained and used by the National Audit Office will be transferred to the Commission. The Commission will build the unified electronic declaration system within 18 months of the entry into force of the present Act on Counteracting Corruption among Persons Holding Public Office.
On January 28, the 51st National Assembly passed amendments to the National Audit Office Act, which closed the previous Anti-Corruption Commission and transferred its functions to the Ministry of Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and to the National Audit Office. Parliament Establishes New Anti-Corruption Commission, Members to Be Elected Within One Month 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-05-29 16:11:53 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law