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The Ministry of the Interior, along with the Metropolitan Directorate, will support Bulgarian citizens without valid ID documents to ensure they can vote in the upcoming National Assembly elections on October 27, 2024. The "Bulgarian Identity Documents" Directorate has implemented measures to assist voters.

The documents proving tax and social security clearance will merge into a single certificate from the end of September.

As part of the government's stated commitment to crack down on needless and time-consuming bureaucracy, the Digital Governance Ministry plans to gradually abolish the endless number of certificates required in the transactions between citizens and both the private and public sectors with the introduction of the relevant legislation in the coming months. 

The new electronic certificate of state dues clearance will be issued from September with express procedures through a special digital portal on Gov.gr.

It is meant to put an end to the suffering of citizens and businesses who need tax and social security clearance for their transactions.

An Interior Ministry amendment aspires to put an end to delays in the issuance by local authorities of the real estate tax (TAP) clearance, recorded in most municipalities of the country. The amendment establishes rules for the required supporting documents as well as the timeframe of their issue.

Plovdiv police have revealed two schemes for issuing false certificates. The documents were issued in Assenovgrad Hospital and in a medical center in the town of Rakovski. Four people were detained for 24 hours.

As of today, people who have had Covid again will be able to receive a green certificate from the website of the National Health Information System.

Information Services announced that the software must be set up and from this morning the generation of a certificate will be possible.

From Thursday, November 11, green certificates obtained after antibody testing will be introduced. This was announced at a briefing today by the Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov.

The certificate will be for people who have had Covid asymptomatically, or for those who have tested themselves with a test from the pharmacy.

An investigation by Bulgarian Media "Nova" has uncovered a large-scale scheme to issue green certificates to unvaccinated people. One of them costs 450 leva. False documents are received in just two days. According to an intermediary, between 15 and 30 false certificates are issued per day by only one doctor.

It is up to each Member State to decide on the use of the certificate in activities within each country and its period of validity