Bill on the Use and Development of Artificial Intelligence (No. 52-654-01-151)

Summary

Private members' bill that would apply Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and govern AI in the public sector, AI skills, investment and AI risks to national security and children. It splits market surveillance among sector regulators, makes the Minister of Innovation and Digital Transformation the notifying authority and the Communications Regulation Commission the single point of contact. It bans remote biometric identification and the AI Act's prohibited practices, prohibits publishing convincing AI fakes of senior officials, or of others without consent, with removal orders, bars training models on children's data save narrow exceptions with parental consent, and sets fines up to BGN 5 million.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Bulgarian text.

Safety topics

Scope

Borderline scope Private members' bill by opposition MPs; included because it is the fullest bill before the National Assembly on applying the AI Act.

Status notes

Filed on 24 September 2026 by ten members of the 52nd National Assembly, led by Bozhidar Bozhanov, and distributed on 25 September 2026 (order 52-650-01-318) to the Committee on Innovation and Digital Transformation as lead committee and to sixteen other committees. By 17 October 2026 no committee report for first reading was listed; opinions had been filed by, among others, the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation and the State Agency for National Security (15 October 2026). The bill would enter into force two months after promulgation, except Article 22, § 7 and § 21, from 1 July 2027. It would also create a national AI coordinator appointed by the Prime Minister, an advisory council at the Council of Ministers and an AI regulatory sandbox, require AI systems that the Council of Ministers designates as high-risk for national security, such as recommender systems of very large online platforms, to give the State Agency for National Security and the ministry their source code, documentation and a description of their training data, and amend the Criminal Code (AI-generated pornographic content), the Election Code (labelling of campaign material made with AI) and the Judiciary Act (courts may not use AI to interpret facts and law).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.parliament.bg/bg/bills/ID/167569

Secondary source: https://www.parliament.bg/bills/52/52-654-01-151.pdf

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — not recorded in version 1; no English version of the bill was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → Private members' bill by opposition MPs; included because it is the fullest bill — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 (recheck), candidate BG-022026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17notes: Re-submission of a bill first tabled by the same group in the 51st National Asse → Filed on 24 September 2026 by ten members of the 52nd National Assembly, led by — rewritten: sixteen participating committees, not seven; opinions of 12 to 15 October 2026 added; entry into force and further content from the bill; statements resting on press reports and the sponsors' 2025 text removed2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17summary: Opposition bill filed on 24 September 2026 for an AI framework: measures applyin → Private members' bill that would apply Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and govern AI i — rewritten from the 2026 bill text (now readable through OCR): competent authorities (Art. 5), bans (Art. 12), AI fakes and removal orders (Art. 15), children's data (Art. 32) and fines (Art. 33, up to BGN 5 million). Version 1's 'opposition bill' and 'fines of up to BGN 50,000' were not supported (fines range up to BGN 200,000 outside the platform case and BGN 5 million for very large platforms)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17issuing_body: National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria (52nd), private members' bill by B → National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria (52nd), private members' bill by B — the party affiliation 'of Democratic Bulgaria' is not in the stored files (the bill page lists the ten sponsors by name only); the sponsors and the 52nd Assembly are2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

EU AI Act European Union · Partially in force

Bulgaria CMS Decision 398/2025 (AI Act fundamental-rights authorities) Bulgaria · In force

Citation

National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria (52nd), private members' bill by Bozhidar Bozhanov and nine other MPs. Bill on the Use and Development of Artificial Intelligence (No. 52-654-01-151) [52-654-01-151]. 2026-09-24. https://www.parliament.bg/bg/bills/ID/167569. Status: Draft / proposed; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/BG-02/2026-10-12/official.html retrieved 2026-10-12 04:37:43 UTC, SHA-256 1b6ddb3c8c87c4904749801896e5daf0ca0d1ada7c8e7767fc3a720f7bf1c6f1. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record BG-02.

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