Duty LXD-4374
Deploys a mental-health chatbot, in Bulgaria
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Electronic Communications Act, Articles 246 and 247, Confidentiality of Communications and Recordingsince 3 lines
Закон за електронните съобщения (ЗЕС, Zakon za elektronnite saobshtenia), chl. 246-247 · Read the law's page
- Do not listen to, record, store or otherwise intercept or track a message or its traffic data unless you are the sender or the recipient, or both of them have given their express consent, or a law provides otherwise (Article 246, paragraph 1).
- You may record messages and their traffic data without that consent only where the recording is necessary and provided for by law to prove the conclusion of commercial transactions, and the sender and recipient have been told in advance of the recording, its purposes and retention period and of their right to refuse it (Article 247, paragraph 1).
- Keep a recording no longer than the period in which it can be used to prove the commercial transaction (Article 247, paragraph 2).
EU Artificial Intelligence Act — Articles 5 and 50 (Prohibited Practices; Bot and Synthetic-Content Disclosure)since 5 lines
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Arts. 5, 50 — directly applicable in Bulgaria as EU Member State
- Do not place on the market, put into service, or use an AI system for social scoring.
- Do not place on the market, put into service, or use an AI system that exploits individuals' vulnerabilities.
- Do not conduct real-time remote biometric identification for law enforcement purposes, which is prohibited in most circumstances.when it serves a public body
- Tell users at the start of an interaction that they are communicating with an AI chatbot or voice agent.
- Mark artificially generated images, video, audio, and text with a machine-readable marker identifying them as artificial.
Draft Horizontal AI Act (proposed by 'Da, Bulgaria' parliamentary group, late 2025)proposed0 lines
Draft legislation, proposed by 'Da, Bulgaria' party, Bulgarian National Assembly, late 2025 — not yet enacted as of August 2026
Criminal Code, Article 171, Violation of the Inviolability of Correspondence by Learning or Diverting an Electronic Messagein force2 lines
Наказателен кодекс (НК, Nakazatelen kodeks), chl. 171, al. 1, point 3 and al. 3-5 · Read the law's page
- Do not unlawfully learn a message sent by electronic means that is not addressed to you, or divert such a message from its addressee (Article 171, paragraph 1, point 3).
- Do not use special technical means to unlawfully gain access to, or learn, a message not addressed to you that is sent by telephone, telegraph, a computer network or another telecommunications means, or computer data sent within or between information systems (Article 171, paragraphs 3 and 4).