Council of Ministers Decision No. 398 of 18 June 2025 designating national authorities protecting fundamental rights, including the right to non-discrimination, under Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act)

Summary

Decision of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers under Article 77(2) of the AI Act designating seven bodies as national authorities that supervise or ensure compliance with EU-law obligations protecting fundamental rights, including non-discrimination, in the use of the high-risk AI systems listed in Annex III: the Ombudsman, the Central Election Commission, the Commission for Protection against Discrimination, the Commission for Personal Data Protection, the Consumer Protection Commission, the State Agency for Child Protection and the General Labour Inspectorate Executive Agency. The Minister of e-Government is to notify the Commission and the other Member States of the list and publish it.

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.

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Status notes

Adopted at the Council of Ministers' sitting of 18 June 2025 and entered in the Council of Ministers' register of acts on 19 June 2025. It designates only fundamental-rights authorities. In answers to BTA published on 9 January 2026, the Ministry of e-Government, the lead ministry for the AI Act, said that a draft decision naming the Bulgarian Accreditation Service as notifying authority had not yet been submitted to the Council of Ministers, that a draft decision on market surveillance had yet to go through interministerial coordination, that no decisions had been taken on the coordination model or the sanctions regime, and that the national legal framework was due by March 2026. A private members' bill with a fuller framework was filed in the National Assembly on 24 September 2026 (BG-02).

Sources

Open the official source https://pris.government.bg/document/deef8dca4eba715a35b3dc266ae23adb/3ac6276165987a941aaa4305496b3e54

Secondary source: https://www.bta.bg/bg/news/1039767

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History

1. 2026-10-18summary: Decision of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers under Article 77(2) of the AI Act → Decision of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers under Article 77(2) of the AI Act — rewritten from the decision's own text: the reference to the high-risk AI systems of Annex III and the Minister's notification and publication duties added; the proposer and the bodies' access to AI Act documentation, which came from the Council of Ministers' sitting page and not from the decision, left out2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18original_title: Решение № 398 на Министерския съвет от 18 юни 2025 г. за определяне на националн → Решение № 398 от 18 юни 2025 година за определяне на национални органи по защита — the decision's heading, now readable in the stored .doc, is longer than version 1's form: it repeats the full title of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; original_title now gives it verbatim (sentence case for the heading's capitals)2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — not recorded in version 1; no English version of the decision was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17notes: Signed by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov. The decision does not designate marke → Adopted at the Council of Ministers' sitting of 18 June 2025 and entered in the — the Commission-list sentence (no stored file) and the Prime Minister's signature (.doc only) removed; adoption at the sitting of 18 June 2025 and entry in the register on 19 June 2025 added; the ministry's answers to BTA restated, with the absence of decisions on the coordination model and sanctions2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17summary: Bulgaria's only adopted AI Act designation act as of October 2026. Under Article → Decision of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers under Article 77(2) of the AI Act — rewritten from matchable stored text: the claim 'Bulgaria's only adopted AI Act designation act as of October 2026' removed (no stored source); the proposer and the bodies' access to AI Act documentation added from the gov.bg page; the Minister's notification and publication duties and the reference to the high-risk systems of Annex III left out because they rest only on the .doc file, which has no text layer2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria. Council of Ministers Decision No. 398 of 18 June 2025 designating national authorities protecting fundamental rights, including the right to non-discrimination, under Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act) [Решение на Министерския съвет № 398 от 18.06.2025 г.]. 2025-06-18. https://pris.government.bg/document/deef8dca4eba715a35b3dc266ae23adb/3ac6276165987a941aaa4305496b3e54. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/BG-01/2026-10-18/secondary-2.html retrieved 2026-10-18 07:41:24 UTC, SHA-256 b38a1c78763811242d80c7d505c45b4e84f0fc682214192d7718861c64790c78. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record BG-01.

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