Online safety & content laws in Bulgaria (2026)

The DSA applies directly across Bulgaria as an EU regulation; Parliament adopted Electronic Communications Act amendments on 6 November 2025, in force 25 November 2025, completing the national framework and ending the EU infringement procedure opened in 2024.

The Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) is the designated Digital Services Coordinator with supervisory and enforcement powers, including certifying out-of-court dispute-settlement bodies and awarding trusted-flagger and vetted-researcher status.

Supervision is split: the CRC covers intermediary services (and online-interface design and recommender-system transparency across all services), the Council for Electronic Media covers video-sharing platforms, and the Commission for Personal Data Protection covers specific privacy-related areas.

Intermediary/hosting liability, notice-and-action, illegal-content takedown, transparency and risk-mitigation duties are set by the DSA's harmonised EU rules rather than a separate Bulgarian statute; the EC enforces directly against Very Large Online Platforms.

Bulgaria has no national law, technical standard or policy mandating age-verification to restrict minors' access to adult/harmful online content, and no plan to deploy an EU Digital Identity Wallet for minors; child-online-safety measures rely on the DSA minor-protection guidelines (July 2025) and a national child-violence-prevention programme.

The internet is open and unrestricted (Bulgaria rates 'free'); concerns center on media capture, opaque online-media ownership and SLAPP lawsuits rather than state internet censorship, and EMFA transposition has stalled.