There is one National Correspondent, who is a prosecutor at the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor`s Office. He is also the Head of the International Department at Prosecutor’s Office in the Republic of Bulgaria.
There is one Tool Correspondent, who is a prosecutor at Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office. For Bulgaria the role of TC is not combined with that of Contact Point.
There are thirteen Contact Points– nine judges and four prosecutors. It is suggested the questions concerning pre-trial stage to be addressed to the prosecutors while those related to the court stage of proceedings – to the judges.
Judges
All of the judges have specialization in criminal law and carry out their duties in criminal departments. However, they have different territorial competences /national or regional/ according to their jurisdiction as follows:
1. Organization: Sofia City Court, Regional competence: Sofia Appeal Region;
2. Organization: Sofia District Court, Regional competence: Sofia Appeal Region;
3. Organization: District Court of Veliko Tarnovo, Regional competence: Veliko Tarnovo Appeal Region;
4. Organization: District court of Varna, Regional competence: Varna Appeal Region;
5. Organization: District court of Stara Zagora, Regional competence: Plovdiv Appeal Region;
6. Organization: Varna Court of Appeal, Regional competence: Bourgas Appeal Region and Varna Appeal Region;
7. Organization: District Court of Shumen, Regional competence: Varna Appeal Region;
8. Organization: Specialized Criminal Court, National competence – regardless of the place of commitment of crime if the request refers to organized crime or terrorism.
9. Organization: Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal, National competence – regardless of the place of commitment of crime if the request refers to organized crime or terrorism.
Prosecutors
All of the prosecutors have national competences. Furthermore, they have specialization in international cooperation in criminal matters. Two of them, who are prosecutors at the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor`s Office, are working at Eurojust. Therefore, it is recommended the questions addressed to them to be linked directly to their current function.
1. Organization: Appeal Prosecutor`s Office of Bourgas, National competence;
2. Organization: Disrtict Prosecutor`s Office of Lovech, National competence;
3. Organization: Eurojust /National Member for Bulgaria/, Department: Bulgarian National Desk, National competence;
4. Organization: Eurojust /Deputy to the National Member for Bulgaria/, Department: Bulgarian National Desk, National competence.