The EU Commission issued a proposal for a Directive harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law, EU (COM(2022) 702 final. Although still being discussed, the Proposal is unlikely to result in material amendments to existing Bulgarian insolvency avoidance actions, which follows the principles set out in the Proposal and in many ways affords creditors a greater level of protection. Nevertheless, certain time periods and rules on the implementation of the avoidance actions may need to be amended in the Bulgarian law.

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Recently, the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice introduced a draft amendment to the Commerce Act (the "Amendment"). Amongst other proposed changes, the Amendment introduces a procedure for the reorganisation of companies, prior to their entering into an insolvency procedure.

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