More than 30% of all court cases in Bulgaria are now handled fully electronically, without paper. Information Services (IS) said this, citing data from the Unified Information System of the Courts (UISC).

Half of all payment orders are issued within three days of a case being registered. Nearly a third are issued on the day the application is filed. Before digitisation, such a case took at least 11 days.

Order proceedings are the most common type of civil case in Bulgaria, and one in three court cases is of this kind. Creditors use them to collect money owed quickly or to get an item back from a debtor.

The results come from the Module for Centralised Allocation and Electronic Processing of Order Proceedings (MCAEOP), which IS developed. More than 230,000 order cases had gone through it fully online by the start of July 2025.

Nearly 180,000 electronic files for writs of execution have been created since 1 July 2025. More than 100,000 enforcement cases have been opened on these files. In over half of them, money is already being collected, and recorded payments total more than €40m.

IS says the creditor, the debtor and the court can follow payments on each electronic writ of execution in real time and see how much of the debt has been paid off. This makes the process more transparent and easier to predict. IS believes digitisation gives people and businesses a faster and easier way to defend their rights.

In April, the IS press office said the time needed to handle order cases had fallen by 65% thanks to digitisation, central allocation and electronic processing.