Footnotes

[758] Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria of July13, 1991, available at http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/bu00t___.html.

[759] "Bulgarian Assembly Passes Personal Data Protection Bill on First Reading," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, November 13, 2001.

[760] The Current Situation of the Access to Public Information in Bulgaria in 2001, Access to Information Program 2002, available at http://www.aip-bg.org.

[761] Id. Access to Information Programme Foundation, Opinion of the Access to Information Programme on the Personal Data Protection Bill, October 24, 2001 http://www.aip-bg.org/documents/zld_aip_eng.htm.

[762] Art. 111a - 111c (as amended SG, Nos 64/1997, 70/1999).

[763] Art. 171 (3) of the Criminal Code.

[764] Telecommunications Law, Art. 5.

[765] Art. 171 (1) item 3 (as amended SG No 92/2002) of the Criminal Code.

[766] Annual Report of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights in Bulgaria in 2000, March 2001, available at http://www.bghelsinki.org/frames-reports.htm.

[767] Id.

[768] United States Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2001, March 4,2002, available at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8238.htm.

[769] "Buggin Affair 'Economically Motivated', Interior Ministry Says," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, October 4, 2001.

[770] "Security Chief Says 'Low Confidence' in Office Led to Resignation," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, November 28, 2001.

[771] "Buggate Scandalizes Bulgaria," Transitions online, July 31 - August 6, 2000.

[772] "Courts Should Be Involved in Controlling Bugging Devices," BBC, August 09, 2000.

[773] "Security Services Bugged Ethnic Turk's Leaders," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, November 26, 2000.

[774] "Bulgarian Government Faces New Bugging Scandal," RFE/RL, December 23, 2002, available at http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2002/12/4-See/see-231202.asp.

[775] Committee for Post and Telecommunications, List of Telecommunication Services, December 18, 1998, State Gazette, December 29, 1998.

[776] Insurance Law, Art. 7 par. 1.

[777] Social Assistance Law, Art. 32 par. 2.

[778] Radio and Television Act, Art. 10, 15.

[779] Access to Public Information Act (draft), available at http://www.aip-bg.org/documents/access.htm.

[780] The Current Situation of the Access to Public Information in Bulgaria in 2001, Access to Information me 2002, available at http://www.aip-bg.org.

[781] The Current Situation of the Access to Public Information in Bulgaria in 2002," Access to Information me 2002, available at http://www.aip-bg.org.

[782] Signed May 10, 1992; ratified September 7, 1992; entered into force September 7, 1992.

[783] Signed June 2, 1998.

[784] Signed November 23, 2001.