The entire legal system of Bulgaria including both acts in force and repealed acts: codes, legislative statutes, rules, ordinances, orders, instructions, draft legislation. LAKORDA provides a unique classification in accordance with different spheres of law. Links to and from the EU Law with regard to its implementation in Bulgaria, updated with every issue of the Bulgarian State Gazette. "Amendment view” of laws, regulations and other acts – you need a single glance to see the amendments introduced with the corresponding issues of the State Gazette. Precise positioning on the lowest possible level within an act – paragraph, point, letter, indent. Electronic State Gazette in PDF format reproducing entirely the original hardcopy – positioning of texts, graphics, fonts, styles – combined with search and print options.

FULL TEXT INFORMATION SYSTEM LAKORDA CONTAINS:
Complete and updated texts of the Bulgarian legislation in force;
Archive of repealed legislative acts and administrative regulations;
Former versions of effective legislative and administrative provisions;
Acts issued by the President, the Parliament and the Council of Ministers and the ministries;

ACTS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
LAKORDA contains acts and correspondence of ministries and various institutions  - instructions, guidelines, opinions, letters etc. These are classified according to the author /e.g. Bulgarian National Bank, National Revenue Agency/

DRAFT LEGISLATION WITH THE REASONS THERETO, OPINIONS OF PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES AND MINUTES FROM PLENARY SESSIONS
LAKORDA contains  a rich database of draft laws, and the supporting texts of their authors, as well as the opinions of the parliamentary commissions on draft legislation, and the statements in plenary sessions by the MPs.

BULGARIAN LAW MODULE OFFERS CLASSIFICATIONS UNDER DIFFERENT CRITERIA to facilitate your work with vast amount of information.

CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE TYPE OF THE ACT
The documents are systematized according to their hierarchical place and name /Constitution, Code, law, ratification act, presidential decree, Council of Ministers’ ordinance, rules, regulation etc./
The same systematization applies to the archive of repealed acts and to the amending acts which have their own categories.

CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR
Acts are systematized according to their author /e.g. Parliament, Council of Ministers/  in the Institutions category.

CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO STATE GAZETTE ISSUE
Documents in LAKORDA are organized in accordance with the issues of State Gazette where they are published. As an added value the product offers not only the content of the respective State Gazette issue, but also the acts that have been amended or repealed in the respective issue.

CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO FIELDS OF LAW
The systematization is largely based on the academic classification of the different fields of law and includes not only  legislative acts and administrative regulations but also case-law, procedures, forms etc.

EUROPEAN LINKS  - special classification based on relations between Bulgarian and EU Law
The category includes documents citing, referring to or transposing EU Law documents. The users have access to the full list of acts and may follow the dynamics of the harmonization of Bulgarian and EU Law by issues of State Gazette.

AMENDMENT VIEW – unique LAKORDA feature
The “Amendment View” is a unique feature allowing the users to have fast orientation in the legislative amendments. Lawyers and other professionals have the opportunity to follow changes to the lowest possible level in an act /point, letter etc./

STATUTORY TEXT ARE PROCESSED TO THE LOWEST POSSIBLE LEVEL
The legal texts in LAKORDA /legislation, administrative regulations and others/ are processed to most detailed levels /point, letter/. This allows for precise positioning in case of hyperlinks to provisions of other legal documents – or their subsections, points, letters etc.

This level of processing also allows a retrieval of a list of document dealing with a specific section of an article /for example Art. 31 (2)(9) of the Administration Act./