BulgariaЗаконопроект за използването и развитието на изкуствения интелект (Bill on the Use and Development of Artificial Intelligence), No. 52-654-01-151
Bill No. 52-654-01-151 of (Законопроект № 52-654-01-151) Fifty-Second National Assembly, Закон за използването и развитието на изкуствения интелект
Introduced in the first chamber, dated , as of .
An AI governance rule binding public and private bodies.
Where it has got to
The text described here is Законопроект за използването и развитието на изкуствения интелект, as filed (Вк. № 52-654-01-151). That print is 52-654-01-151, published .
Locally, this stage is внесен законопроект.
The stage above is recorded at www.parliament.bg.
The filing date is the stamp of the National Assembly on the cover sheet of the bill as filed.
What it requires
- This is a bill, not law: it was filed in the National Assembly on and has not been enacted. Read the lines below as what would apply if it is enacted as filed.
- Do not use remote biometric identification systems, and do not engage in the AI practices that Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 prohibits (Article 12(1), points 1 and 3).
- Do not publish on an online platform AI-generated content that is a convincing forgery in the name of a person in high public office or a state body, or in the name of another person where that person has not consented in advance (Article 15(1)).
- If a recommender system you operate is identified as high-risk for national security by the Council of Ministers, give the State Agency for National Security and the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation without delay its source code and technical documentation, a description of its training data, its main model parameters and statistics on its results (Article 13(2)).
- Do not use children's personal data to train an AI model unless their parents or guardians consent and the model is a specialized one for children's education or pediatric innovation (Article 32).
- If you provide, import or distribute AI systems in Bulgaria, give a current telephone number when you register in the Commercial Register and hold a profile in the secure electronic delivery system (Article 11).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Bill No. 52-654-01-151, the Act on the Use and Development of Artificial Intelligence, was filed in the Fifty-Second National Assembly on by a group of members of the National Assembly. It is a bill, not law.
Article 5 would name the national market surveillance authorities for Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 sector by sector and make the Communications Regulation Commission the single point of contact, and Article 3 would have the Prime Minister appoint a national coordinator for the use and development of artificial intelligence.
Article 12 would prohibit the use of remote biometric identification systems and the practices that Article 5 of the Regulation prohibits, and Article 33 would fine a breach of that ban 10,000 to 50,000 leva, the unit the bill states. Article 15 would prohibit publishing on online platforms AI-generated content that is a convincing forgery in the name of a person in high public office or a state body, or, in the name of another person, where the person has not consented in advance.
Article 13 would require systems that the Council of Ministers identifies as high-risk for national security to give the State Agency for National Security and the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation, among other information, the source code and technical documentation of the recommender system, and a very large online platform operator that fails to do so faces a penalty of 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 leva.
Article 29 would provide that training an AI model counts as automated analysis of text and information under Articles 26e and 26zh (in Cyrillic, 26е and 26ж) of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act. Article 32 would prohibit using children's personal data to train AI models unless their parents or guardians consent, and then only for specialized models that support children's education or pediatric innovation.
The Act would enter into force two months after promulgation in the State Gazette, except Article 22, § 7 and § 21, which would apply from .
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