National law and strategy

Without any further commitments for ratification Bulgaria has signed the United Nations Convention on the 27th September 2007. More than a year later - on the 18th December 2008) Bulgaria signed also the Optional Protocol.

Important national laws, policies and strategies concerning disabled people include:

Law on Integration of Disabled People (with enforcement regulations) (BG version) enacted in 2005 

Social Assistance Act (1998, last amendments - 1 July 2008) (with enforcement regulations) (BG version)

Antidiscrimination Act (2004, last amendments - 19 December 2008) (BG version)


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