Balgarianovinite.com Adjudicating Constitutional Case No. 6 of 2026, Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court on Thursday declined a petition submitted by the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) to declare unconstitutional a provision of the Measures Against Money Laundering Act which obliges the Supreme Bar Council (SBC) to adopt uniform internal rules on money-laundering and terrorist-financing control and prevention, to be applied by the members of the bar associations.
The SAC argued that the SBC can issue statutory instruments of secondary legislation only if empowered to do so by The Bar Act. “The constitutional status of the Bar is no grounds to limit the exclusive powers of the National Assembly, acting at its discretion and without violating any principles of the basic law, to provide for an obligation of the Supreme Bar Council to adopt uniform internal rules. The circumstance that this obligation is provided for by a law other than The Bar Act does not make it constitutionally intolerable,” the Constitutional Court ruled.
In Constitutional Case No. 5 of 2026, which was also decided on Thursday, the Constitutional Court declined a petition by the SBC to find unconstitutional a provision of the Code of Civil Procedure which makes civil cases with a cost of action not exceeding BGN 5,000 and commercial cases with a cost of action not exceeding BGN 20,000 ineligible for a cassation appellate review.
“Setting the admissibility of a cassation appellate review according to the monetary appraisal of the subject matter and according to the cause of action and the nature of the case, combined with the selection of the cases, is not unconstitutional because a cassation appellate review is intended to ensure a legally conforming adjudication of cases within a reasonable period of time rather than to ensure the access of all or of the predominant type and number of cases to the court of cassation review instance,” the Constitutional Court concluded.
The 12-member Court adopted both decisions by 10 votes in favour. They were signed with a dissenting opinion by Judge Sonya Yankulova. Judge Nevin Feti was absent from the session. Supreme Administrative Court, Supreme Bar Council Lose Constitutional Cases 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-07-09 19:32:11 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