Rules of Activity
Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre in Bulgaria
Rules of Activity
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre does not provide assistance and counselling for those cases being judged in courts.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre does not represent its clients in court.
The counsellors and assistants of the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre do not have the right to represent the clients in court, in trials regarding the cases brought to the attention of the Centre or in other trials.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre assists and counsels the witnesses or victims of the acts of corruption regarding the means to notify the authorities, the legal provisions, the best ways to solve the problems, but does not draw up procedural papers in their name.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre assists and monitors the corruption cases, that should be analysed and sanctioned according to the law by the State authorities. It does not issue documents certifying the existence or non-existence of corruption offences.
The beneficiaries should not use the Centre’s name when taking further steps, as a guarantee for the existence or non-existence of corruption offences.
The objectives of the Centre are the fight against corruption through information and the expertise offered to support the citizens’ efforts to see the corruption acts certified and sanctioned by courts of justice and administrative authorities.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre does not launch campaigns against individuals or institutions.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre keeps the confidentiality of the source only for the information given exclusively to the Centre, but not for that information used to take other legal steps or that was made public; in the latter case, the Centre provides assistance and counselling without signing a confidentiality agreement.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre and the clients have to show mutual respect and to adopt a decent behaviour.
The Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre reserves the right to stop counselling:
- If the beneficiary misses or repeatedly cancels the meetings or does not provide the information necessary to council the case;
- In case of aggressive behaviour;
- If the beneficiary does not observe the conditions set for assistance;
- If the beneficiary uses the name of the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre without its consent
- If the citizen presents his/her case to the media while benefiting from counselling for that case.
The clients, having knowledge of the above minimum rules before presenting their case to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre of Transparency International-Bulgaria, accept them and agree to observe them.
Useful Links
You can also use the following contacts for referring signals against corruption:
Corruption Combating Committee
/at the National Assembly/
Address: Sofia 1169, 1 “Kniaz Alexander I” Sq.
Telephone: (+359 2) 9392183
Fax: (+359 2) 9861620
E-mail: anticorruption@parliament.bg
Commission for Prevention and
Counteraction
of Corruption /at the Council of Ministers/
Address: Sofia 1194, 1 “Dondukov” Blvd.
E-mail: gis@government.bg
Corruption in the judiciary
Commission for Counteraction
of Corruption
and Professional Ethics
/at the Supreme Judicial Council/
Web: http://www.vss.justice.bg/bg/start.htm
E-mail: vss-antikorupcia@delbg.com
Corruption in the field of finance
Ministry of Finance
Telephone: 080018018
Corruption in the system
of the Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Interior
Web: http://nocorr.mvr.bg
Telephone: (+359 2) 9822222
National Customs Agency
Telephone: (+359 2) 98594119
(+359 2) 98594140
(+359 2) 98594504
(+359 2) 98594496
Public Council for Civil Monitoring over the
use of European Funds in the Agricultural Sector
Address: Pazardzhik, 10 “Tzar Samuil” Str., Office №102, Fl. 1
Telephone: (+359) 885 774558
E-mail: info@petyastavreva.eu
Corruption in the field of
management of European funds
/Deputy Prime Minister responsible for
the management
of European funds/
Telephone: 080013999
Toll-Free Line
the toll-free line:
0800 11 224
Contact
Telephone: (+359 2) 986 77 13
(+359 2) 986 79 20
Fax: (+359 2) 986 78 34
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