Report on the Current Legal Framework and Proposals for Legislative Initiative in Relation to the Electronic Commerce in Bulgaria

The objects of the study are all of the aspects of Bulgarian e-Commerce legal framework – contractual law, e-documents and e-signatures regime, e-banking, financial services and tax levy on e-Commerce, consumers’ protection, personal data protection and protection of intellectual property rights. The report identifies the obstacles in development of e-Commerce in Bulgaria, possible measures for their overcoming, as well as good practices and perceived approaches for legal regulation of e-Commerce in the Members State of the European Union. The second part of the analysis contains a package of proposals for amendments of ongoing legislation which implements the relevant European legislation in the field.