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Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Arrêté n° 12 du 27 décembre 2004 sur la sécurité et la santé au travail avec des véhicules automobiles.

Adoption: 2004-12-27 | Date of entry into force: 2005-06-19 | BGR-2004-R-97204

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Arrêté n° 10 du 7 décembre 2004 sur la sécurité et la santé au travail avec des chariots élévateurs.

Adoption: 2004-12-07 | Date of entry into force: 2005-06-24 | BGR-2004-R-97206

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Ordinance to amend and supplement Ordinance No. 7/1999 on minimum requirements on health and safety conditions at the workplace and regarding work equipment

Adoption: 2004-10-08 | Date of entry into force: 2004-11-05 | BGR-2004-R-68593

Provides that the floors, walls and rooms of the workplace must be insulated to ensure a suitable temperature in order to avoid risks to employees' health. Electric equipment and installations must be designed and produced so that they do not create danger of fire or explosion while they are being used. Emergency doors must be easily openable without using keys or other equipment. Required signs shall be put at emergency exits. Work outdoors shall be permitted only when weather conditions do not threaten the health and safety of the employees. Work equipment, installations and outdoor workplaces must be organized to ensure the health and security of workers.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Arrêté n° 8 du 23 septembre 2004 sur la sécurité et la santé dans le travail avec des compresseurs d'air.

Adoption: 2004-09-23 | Date of entry into force: 2005-04-20 | BGR-2004-R-97217

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations to repeal several former regulations.

Adoption: 2004-07-20 | Date of entry into force: 2004-07-20 | BGR-2004-R-68612

Repeals the Regulation on occupational safety in construction work as of 5 November 2004; repeals the Regulation on occupational safety in metal work, the Regulation on occupational safety in public laundries, and the Regulation on occupational safety in the wood-making industry as of 23 December 2004.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Arrêté n° 6 du 25 mai 2004 sur la sécurité et la santé au travail dans le domaine du traitement mécanique du bois.

Adoption: 2004-05-25 | Date of entry into force: 2004-12-23 | BGR-2004-R-97215

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Arrêté n° 2 du 22 mars 2004 sur les exigences minimales de sécurité et de santé au travail dans le secteur de la construction (dans sa teneur modifiée en 2006).

Adoption: 2004-03-22 | Date of entry into force: 2004-11-06 | BGR-2004-R-97203

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations on occupational safety of workers dealing with electricity.

Adoption: 2004 | BGR-2004-R-67249

Provides for organisation of occupational safety, personnel training, safety measures and persons responsible for safety, controls, means of collective protection, and accident prevention.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 13 of 30 December 2003 on workers' protection from the risks relating to exposure to chemical agents at work.

Adoption: 2003-12-30 | Date of entry into force: 2005-01-30 | BGR-2003-R-66968

Defines employers' obligations to ensure occupational safety and health for workers exposed to chemical agents, and minimal requirements for their protection.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 10 of 26 September 2003 on the protection of workers from risks related with exposure to carcinogenic and mutagenic agents at work.

Adoption: 2003-09-26 | Date of entry into force: 2004-10-24 | BGR-2003-R-65261

Determines minimum requirements for workers' protection.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 9 of 29 July 2003 on minimum requirements to ensure security and health to workers during extraction of underground resources by drilling.

Adoption: 2003-07-29 | Date of entry into force: 2004-09-05 | BGR-2003-R-64858

Provides for employers' obligations and contains additional provisions on requirements for extraction at sea.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 6 of 20 June 2003 on conditions and means of financing of projects and programmes of the Fund "Conditions of Work".

Adoption: 2003-06-20 | BGR-2003-R-64719

Deals, inter alia, with monitoring of implementation of such programmes and projects.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree to amend and supplement the Decree No. 7 of 1999 on minimum requirements for healthy and safe working conditions in workplaces and during the use of work equipment.

Adoption: 2003-05-13 | BGR-2003-R-64705

Contains numerous modifications. Provides, inter alia, that the Decree should also be applied by independant workers. Also deals with protection zones, moving equipments, functions of the coordinator for occupational safety and health, and verification of work equipment.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 1 of 27 February 2003 on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to asbestos at work.

Adoption: 2003-02-27 | BGR-2003-R-64709

Fixes minimum requirements for the protection of workers from existent or potential risks for their health and security during exposure to asbestos at their workplace. Provides for risk evaluation and exposure limitations.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 2 of 27 February 2003 on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to noise at work.

Adoption: 2003-02-27 | Date of entry into force: 2003-07-08 | BGR-2003-R-64710

Fixes minimum requirements for the protection of workers from existent or potential risks to damage their hearing in relation with occupational safety and health while exposed to noise during working hours. Contains provisions on employers' obligations and noise measurement.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Law, Act

Act of 12 February 2003 to amend and supplement the Act on Occupational Safety and Health.

Adoption: 2003-02-12 | BGR-2003-L-64704

Amends several sections inter alia relating to the use of work equipment, functions and tasks of the service of occupational medicine, financing of projects on working conditions. Also amends sections 288, 303 (on employment of children under 16) and 304 of the Labour Code.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree of 2003 to amend and supplement the Decree No. 9 of 1997 on general rules of management of the activities linked with safety and health preservation of workers in mines.

Adoption: 2003 | Date of entry into force: 2004-08-01 | BGR-2003-R-64716

Amends provisions relating to minimum security requirements, risk evaluation, workplace signs, plans of action in the event of danger and protective equipments.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Ordinance No. 4 of 14 October 2002 of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Health Care on the protection of personnel against exposure to biological agents during handling. -

Adoption: 2002-10-14 | BGR-2002-R-64323

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Ordinance No. 3 of 18 September 2002 of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Health Care on the minimum requirements to provide healthy and safe conditions of work at video-display workstations. [Repealed]

Adoption: 2002-09-18 | BGR-2002-R-64314

Repeals Ordinance No. 8 of 1996 on the same subject.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 204 of 3 September 2002 to approve the Ordinance on the substantial requirements and the appraisal of the compliance therewith of pressurized equipment.

Adoption: 2002-09-03 | BGR-2002-R-64317

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 131 of the Council of Ministers to adopt the Order on the final risk assessment of new chemical substances on persons and the environment.

Adoption: 2002-07-01 | Date of entry into force: 2004-01-01 | BGR-2002-R-62076

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 130 of the Council of Ministers to adopt the Order on dangerous chemical substances and products of which trade or use is prohibited or limited.

Adoption: 2002-07-01 | Date of entry into force: 2003-01-01 | Date of gradual entry into force: 2004-01-01 | BGR-2002-R-62078

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Law, Act

Act on the Safe Use of Nuclear Energy. -

Adoption: 2002-06-28 | BGR-2002-L-62086

Organises the safe use of nuclear energy, medical use of ionizing radiation, safe direction of radioactive waste, and the rights and duties of persons performing such activities.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 30 of the Council of Ministers to amend and supplement the Order for the establishment, investigation, registration and listing of occupational accidents.

Adoption: 2002-02-11 | Date of entry into force: 2002-01-01 | BGR-2002-R-62068

Various amendments concerning, inter alia, declaration and inquiry procedures.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Miscellaneous (circular, directive, legal notice, instruction, etc.)

Instruction No. 1 of the National Insurance Institute on the conditions and procedures for the use of the ressources of the social insurance budget, determined as financial benefits for profilaxy and rehabilitation.

Adoption: 2002-01-10 | BGR-2002-M-62088

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Order No. RD-07-272 of the National Statistical Institute to establish the statistical system on the incidence of occupational accidents.

Adoption: 2001-12-29 | Date of entry into force: 2002-01-01 | BGR-2001-R-62073

Provides for procedures regarding the declaration, classification and indicators of occupational accidents.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Ordonnance n° 3 du 19 avril 2001 sur les exigences minimales de santé et sécurité des travailleurs lors de l'utilisation d'un équipement de protection individuelle. -

Adoption: 2001-04-19 | Date of entry into force: 2001-08-16 | BGR-2001-R-80624

Section 1: Disposions générales (arts. 1 à 4)
Section 2: Obligations de l'employeur (arts. 5 à 28)
Section 3: Disposition complémentaire (paragraphe unique)
Section 4: Dispositions transitoires et finales (paragraphe 2 à 6)

Contient également une liste des activités exigeant un équipement de protection individuelle ainsi qu'une liste de ces équipements.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations No. 79 of 29 March 2001 to approve the Decree on the procedure of information, registration, establishment, appeal and report of occupational diseases.

Adoption: 2001-03-29 | Date of entry into force: 2001-07-04 | BGR-2001-R-58871

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations No. 80 of 29 March 2001 to approve the List of occupational diseases.

Adoption: 2001-03-29 | Date of entry into force: 2001-07-04 | BGR-2001-R-58872

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations No. 196 of 26 September 2000 for the application of the Decree on technical exploitation of electric power stations and electrical networks.

Adoption: 2000-09-26 | Date of entry into force: 2000-11-06 | BGR-2000-R-57781

Contains provisions relating to secure and healthy working conditions (sections 97 to 100).

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Law, Act

Act of 20 January 2000 on protection from harmful effects of chemical substances, preparations and products.

Adoption: 2000-01-20 | Date of entry into force: 2002-01-20 | BGR-2000-L-55661

Provides for classification of chemical substances, security measures for production and use of such substances, supervision and transportation.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree to amend and supplement the Decree No. 7 of 1999 on minimum requirements for healthy and safe working conditions in workplaces and for the use of work equipment.

Adoption: 2000 | BGR-2000-R-56707

Amends section 217 replacing "Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and Ministry of Health" by "Executive Agency "Bulgarian service by accreditation"".

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Order of 30 December 1999 on the establishment, investigation, registration and accounting of occupational accidents (last amended in 2002).

Adoption: 1999-12-30 | Date of entry into force: 2000-01-01 | BGR-1999-R-55702

Contains provisions on the declaration of occupational accidents and their registration.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Décret n° 263 du Conseil des ministres du 30 décembre 1999 adoptant l'arrêté sur la constation, l'enquête, l'enregistrement et la notification des accidents de travail (dans sa teneur modifiée en 2002).

Adoption: 1999-12-30 | Date of entry into force: 2000-01-01 | BGR-1999-R-97184

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 7 of 23 September 1999 on minimum requirements for healthy and safe working conditions in workplaces and during the use of work equipment. -

Adoption: 1999-09-23 | BGR-1999-R-54627

Contains provisions relating to occupational safety in construction, transport, mines, fishing industry, and agriculture. Provides for security standards relating to electrical installations, emergency exits and work environment (light, temperature, toxic substances, ventilation, noise, vibration).

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 16 of 31 May 1999 on physiological norms and rules for manual work with heavy materials.

Adoption: 1999-05-31 | Date of entry into force: 1999-09-15 | BGR-1999-R-54994

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 5 of 11 May 1999 on means, procedure and periodicity of risk evaluation. -

Adoption: 1999-05-11 | BGR-1999-R-53685

Concerns evaluation of risks for health and security of workers and employees. Risks shall be evaluated with regard to labour process, work equipment, work environment, work places, labour organization, use of raw materials, and other collateral factors that can involve a risk.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree of 26 March 1999 on planning and preparation of action in the event of a nuclear accident.

Adoption: 1999-03-26 | BGR-1999-R-52501

Provides for obligations of bodies responsible for operating nuclear stations, and measures to be taken for the protection of the population in the event of an accident.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree of 19 March 1999 on requirements for treatment and transport of industrial and dangerous wastes.

Adoption: 1999-03-19 | BGR-1999-R-54991

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations on the activity and organization of the Inspectorate for hygiene and epidemiology.

Adoption: 1999 | BGR-1999-R-52159

One of the tasks of the Inspectorate is to consult and assist employers in the implementation of the Act on occupational safety.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 14 of 7 August 1998 on the occupational health service.

Adoption: 1998-08-07 | BGR-1998-R-50857

Provides for the functions and tasks of the service, conditions and procedure for its creation, qualification of its personnel, and organization of its activities.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Order No. 3 of 27 July 1998 on the functions and tasks of the executive and specialized services of enterprises for the organization of activities related to protection from and prevention of occupational risks.

Adoption: 1998-07-27 | BGR-1998-R-51761

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 2 of 19 May 1998 on the management of the Fund "Conditions of Work" to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (last amended in 2000).

Adoption: 1998-05-19 | BGR-1998-R-51325

Provides, inter alia, for the financing sources of the fund. The fund finances projects and programmes which are in conformity with the Act on occupational safety and health.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Law, Act

Act of 16 December 1997 on Occupational Safety and Health, as amended. -

Adoption: 1997-12-16 | BGR-1997-L-48606

Contains 7 chapters and 55 sections. Provides for rights and obligations of citizens, employers, workers and employees, self-employed persons, and other organizations and legal persons responsible for occupational safety and health. Sets forth measures such as hazard prevention and measurement.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 9 of 16 December 1997 on general rules of management of the activities linked with safety and health preservation of workers in mines.

Adoption: 1997-12-16 | Date of entry into force: 1998-01-01 | BGR-1997-R-49015

Provides for obligations of employers, rights and obligations of workers and disciplinary responsibility in the event of non-respect of the obligations.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 13 of 19 September 1997 on services of occupational medicine.

Adoption: 1997-09-19 | BGR-1997-R-48204

Sets forth the establishment of occupational medicine services, their tasks (evaluation of workplaces, participation in the choice of new equipment, verification of sanitary conditions...) and organization of their activities.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 3 of 16 June 1997 on protection against fire on construction sites.

Adoption: 1997-06-16 | BGR-1997-R-48048

Provides for the organization of protection against fire, requirements for protection on construction sites, requirements for electrical systems and devices, heating and ventilation. Also provides for requirements for technological processes, equipment, warehouses, and transport of dangerous material.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 87 of 12 March 1997 on the establishment of a body in charge of the elaboration and the realization of the policy ensuring secure and healthy working conditions.

Adoption: 1997-03-12 | BGR-1997-R-48053

The National Council for Labour Conditions shall be in charge of the coordination, consultation and cooperation in the field of occupational safety and health policy.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Decree No. 6 of 15 August 1996 on general requirements and obligations to ensure occupational safety.

Adoption: 1996-08-15 | Date of entry into force: 1996-11-01 | BGR-1996-R-47712

Provides, inter alia, for safety requirements for construction sites and workplaces concerning water supply, equipment and technology, protection against fire, and sanitary service.

Bulgaria - Occupational safety and health - Miscellaneous (circular, directive, legal notice, instruction, etc.)

Instruction of 5 July 1996 on requirements for safety conditions in education and work in the system of public education.

Adoption: 1996-07-05 | BGR-1996-M-47710

Concerns, inter alia, the use of various equipment, electric installations, vibration, noise, ergonomics, and temperature. Provides for organization and control of safety activities.