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New EU Packaging Rules: Key Business Implications Under the PPWR

The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces a new compliance framework for packaging placed on the EU market and will reshape how businesses approach packaging design, documentation, labelling and waste responsibility. Although the Regulation applies generally from 12 August 2026, many of its most significant effects will unfold in stages over the coming years.

Short-Term Accommodation Rentals: The New EU Framework and Its Implications for Bulgaria

New Pay Transparency Rules: Draft Amendments to the Protection Against Discrimination Act

DPC Advises Digitain on Regulatory Entry into the Bulgarian Market

New EU Packaging Rules: Key Business Implications Under the PPWR

The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces a new compliance framework for packaging placed on the EU market and will reshape how businesses approach packaging design, documentation, labelling and waste responsibility. Although the Regulation applies generally from 12 August 2026, many of its most significant effects will unfold in stages over the coming years.

Tsvetelina Koleva

Short-Term Accommodation Rentals: The New EU Framework and Its Implications for Bulgaria

To harmonise national legislation, the European Union adopted Regulation (EU) 2024/1028, which introduces a common framework on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services.

Boyana Milcheva

New Pay Transparency Rules: Draft Amendments to the Protection Against Discrimination Act

A Draft Act Amending and Supplementing the Protection Against Discrimination Act (the “Draft Act”) has been prepared, introducing the requirements of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms

Radina Tomanova

DPC Advises Digitain on Regulatory Entry into the Bulgarian Market

DPC provided end-to-end legal support on the regulatory, licensing, and product compliance aspects of Digitain Malta’s direct operations in our jurisdiction

Hristo Nihrizov

Inheritance of Shares in a Limited Liability Company: Can One Become an LLC Shareholder by Inheritance?

Can the Articles of Association of an LLC Allow Heirs of a Deceased Shareholder to Become Shareholders without a General Meeting Resolution?

Tsvetelina Koleva

The Lobbying Act is officially promulgated in Bulgaria

This piece of legislation is key to unlocking EU funds under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and for meeting OECD accession requirements

Nikola Stoychev

DPC Successfully Challenges Refusal of the Commercial Register to Initiate Fast-Track Liquidation Procedure

Our corporate law experts successfully overturned a Commercial Register refusal, reaffirming that the fast‑track liquidation procedure is fully applicable and can effectively accelerate company liquidations for eligible businesses

Polya Dimitrova

Bulgarian Supreme Court: Rights Holders Cannot Use Standard Copyright Claims to Force ISP Website Blocking

The Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation with a major decision on online copyright infringement and ISPs liability

Nikola Stoychev

Bulgaria Adopts NIS2: Key Changes Businesses Need to Know

Bulgaria has adopted major amendments to the Cybersecurity Act, finally transposing the EU’s second Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive into its national legal framework

Nikola Stoychev

New EU Packaging Rules: Key Business Implications Under the PPWR

The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces a new compliance framework for packaging placed on the EU market and will reshape how businesses approach packaging design, documentation, labelling and waste responsibility. Although the Regulation applies generally from 12 August 2026, many of its most significant effects will unfold in stages over the coming years.

Tsvetelina Koleva

Short-Term Accommodation Rentals: The New EU Framework and Its Implications for Bulgaria

To harmonise national legislation, the European Union adopted Regulation (EU) 2024/1028, which introduces a common framework on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services.

Boyana Milcheva

New Pay Transparency Rules: Draft Amendments to the Protection Against Discrimination Act

A Draft Act Amending and Supplementing the Protection Against Discrimination Act (the “Draft Act”) has been prepared, introducing the requirements of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms

Radina Tomanova

DPC Advises Digitain on Regulatory Entry into the Bulgarian Market

DPC provided end-to-end legal support on the regulatory, licensing, and product compliance aspects of Digitain Malta’s direct operations in our jurisdiction

Hristo Nihrizov

Inheritance of Shares in a Limited Liability Company: Can One Become an LLC Shareholder by Inheritance?

Can the Articles of Association of an LLC Allow Heirs of a Deceased Shareholder to Become Shareholders without a General Meeting Resolution?

Tsvetelina Koleva

The Lobbying Act is officially promulgated in Bulgaria

This piece of legislation is key to unlocking EU funds under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and for meeting OECD accession requirements

Nikola Stoychev

DPC Successfully Challenges Refusal of the Commercial Register to Initiate Fast-Track Liquidation Procedure

Our corporate law experts successfully overturned a Commercial Register refusal, reaffirming that the fast‑track liquidation procedure is fully applicable and can effectively accelerate company liquidations for eligible businesses

Polya Dimitrova

Bulgarian Supreme Court: Rights Holders Cannot Use Standard Copyright Claims to Force ISP Website Blocking

The Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation with a major decision on online copyright infringement and ISPs liability

Nikola Stoychev

February 6, 2026

Bulgaria Adopts NIS2: Key Changes Businesses Need to Know

Bulgaria has adopted major amendments to the Cybersecurity Act, finally transposing the EU’s second Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive into its national legal framework

Nikola Stoychev

February 26, 2018

Martin Zahariev, PHD, presented GDPR at a workshop under a European project

Martin Zahariev, PhD delivered a presentation at a workshop on privacy and education in the context of the so called “once-only” principle.

January 7, 2020

Desislava Krusteva gains recognition in the Women in Data 2019 survey

Global Data Review – the leading information source within the data law landscape – has recently released its new survey Women in Data 2019.

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