According to the Law on the Prevention and Ascertainment of Conflict of Interests:
A conflict of interest arises when a person occupying a public position has any private interest that may affect the impartial and objective performance of the official power or official obligations.
Private interest means any interest which results in a benefit from tangible and intangible character for a person occupying a public position or for any persons connected with him, including any obligation assumed.
Benefit means any income in money or in property, including acquisition of stakes or shares, as well as granting, transferring or renouncing of rights, receiving a privilege or honours, acquiring goods or services gratuitously or at prices below the market prices, assistance, vote, support or influence, advantage, obtaining or receiving a promise to obtain a job, a position, a gift, a reward or a promise to avoid a loss, liability, sanction or another adverse event.
In connection with the amendments of the Law on the Prevention and Ascertainment of Conflict of Interests, a Commission for prevention and ascertainment of conflict of interest was established in 2011 which is an independent, permanently operating state authority. The conflict of interests for persons occupying a public position is found out by the Commission for prevention and ascertainment of conflict of interest.
If you have any information for concrete circumstance which could be defined as a situation of conflict of interests for SAMTS employee/employees, you could submit a signal to the Commission to the following address:
Commission for prevention and ascertainment of conflict of interest
18, “Vitosha” Blvd.
Floor 5
District “Triadica”
Sofia
Tel: +359 2 811 90 11, +359 2 811 90 33
Fax: +359 2 811 90 30
The signals of conflict of interests, received in SAMTS, shall be forwarded to the Commission for prevention and ascertainment of conflict of interest