Oversight and accountability
Government approves method to check if price rises are justified
The method does not set prices or mark-ups. It gives inspectors rules to judge whether a price rise has an economic reason.
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Oversight and accountability
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Oversight and accountability
Oversight and accountability
Sheep and goat pox found near Stara Zagora, two zones set up in Petrovo
Bulgaria's food safety agency (BFSA) has found an outbreak of sheep and goat pox in Petrovo, near Stara Zagora. Animals in the 5km and 20km zones…
Oversight and accountability
Bulgarian food safety agency stops 10,960 kg of carrots from Turkey over pesticides above the limit
The shipment will be destroyed and will not reach the EU market. A lab analysis found pesticide residues above the permitted levels.
Oversight and accountability
Bulgaria has second most hazardous waste per person in EU, audit office says
Bulgaria produces 2,246 kg of hazardous waste per person, against an EU average of 266 kg, and five regions have no plants to dispose of it.
Oversight and accountability
Yettel Bulgaria recalls CL Mag5000 power bank over fire risk
Three models of the 5000 mAh power bank, sold from July 2025 to September 2026, are affected.
Oversight and accountability
Food safety agency to check sunflower oil makers across Bulgaria until 22 October
Inspectors will compare how much oil each plant produces with its design and capacity, and will check the documents for raw materials.
Oversight and accountability
Retailers' group says consumer watchdog confuses price indexes with markups and profits
The Modern Trade Association has replied to Maya Manolova over her claim of markups above 140% on dairy products. It also put questions to the…
Oversight and accountability
Consumer watchdog: butter marked up 141%, cheese 133% at inspected supermarket chain
Bulgaria's Consumer Protection Commission (KZP) has corrected the first results of its check at a retail chain. It says markups on butter, white…
Oversight and accountability
Competition watchdog expects about 1,350 procurement appeals by end of 2026
More than four in five cases at the commission involve municipal procurements. The commission wants firms with a proven cartel in a tender to be…
Oversight and accountability
Consumer watchdog finds 125% markup on butter at a retail chain (updated)
Markups on yellow cheese and fresh milk are 99%, and on white brine cheese 95%, Maya Manolova, head of the Consumer Protection Commission (KZP), told…
Oversight and accountability
Insurance broker premiums are €744m, up 10% year-on-year
Brokers collected €744m in premiums in the first half of 2026. Their commissions came to €150.3m, up 12% on a year earlier.
Oversight and accountability
Health fund says 21 pharmacies got over €1m without grounds
In checks in 12 regions, the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) found medicines dispensed whose national number does not match the product code.
Oversight and accountability
Bulgaria's financial watchdog names six websites offering crypto services without a licence
The people behind the sites must stop offering the services within three days. The Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) also named one site that…
Oversight and accountability
Watchdog fines three retail chains 95,000 euros for unfair trading
Two of the chains advertised promotions on oil and sugar, but the goods were not on the shelves, while the third indicated an incorrect country of…
Oversight and accountability
Consumer watchdog seizes 280 boxes of tobacco-laced nicotine pouches found in courier parcels
Inspectors checked two courier firms following a signal from the Customs Agency, and an order for prohibition has been issued against two men from…