NATIONAL REVENUE AGENCY (Bulgaria)

The National Revenue Agency administers the processes and activities for licensing, servicing, control, and recovery of public claims

Pursuant to the amendments adopted by the National Assembly by the Act Amending and Supplementing the Gambling Act, with effect from 8 August 2020, the State Commission on Gambling (SCG) is dissolved (§81(1) of the Transitional and Final Provisions of the Act Amending and Supplementing the Gambling Act).
In connection with the administration of the processes and activities for licensing, servicing, control and recovery of public claims under the Gambling Act, upon transfer of the functions of the abolished State Commission on Gambling to National Revenue Agency (NRA), as of 8 August 2020 the following has to be taken into account:

1. The powers of the SCG chairman and members shall be terminated (§83(1) of the Transitional and Final Provisions of the Act Amending and Supplementing the Gambling Act). The state supervision in the field of gambling and gambling activities shall be carried out by the Director General of the National Revenue Agency, who may assign his/her powers to a Deputy Director General of the Agency authorised by him/her.
2. Until the registers referred to in Article 20 of the Gambling Act are established, the registers established by the State Commission on Gambling pursuant to the current procedure shall be maintained. The new registers referred to in Article 20 shall be established by NRA within 6 months of the entry into force of the Act (§81(6)).
3. Administrative and administrative-criminal proceedings initiated before the State Commission on Gambling and not completed before the entry into force of this Act shall be completed by the National Revenue Agency (§85, para. 1)
4. In connection to the licensing procedures, it is necessary to keep in mind the following:

Offline legislation: https://parliament.bg/bg/laws/ID/13713
Online legislation: https://parliament.bg/bg/laws/ID/13713