Law on Food.

This Law regulates: the requirements to the food safety; the requirements to the business operators and the persons, working in sites for production, processing and/or distribution of foods; the requirements for packaging, labelling, presentation and advertising of foods; the requirements for production, processing and/or distribution of food (including HACCP issues); the requirements to sites for production and wholesale trade and the requirements for retail trade in materials and objects, intended for contact with food; the requirements for transportation of food; the requirements for distance food trade; the requirements for the natural mineral, spring and table waters; the requirements to the foods, intended for infants and small children, the foods for special medical purposes and the foods in which vitamins, minerals and some other substances are invested; the requirements to the additives, enzymes and flavorings in foods and food additives; the requirements to the foods, intended for use at intensive muscular loading; the requirements to the genetically modified foods; the requirements to the foods treated with ionizing radiation; the requirements to the smoke flavorings, used or intended for use in or on foods; the requirements to the new foods; the conditions and the order for carrying out food banking; the bodies for official control over the production, processing and/or distribution of food; the conditions and the order for food export; the functions of the National Food Council; the functions and powers of the branch organizations of food producers, processors and/or distributors; the requirements to the activity of the Conciliation Commission. These provisions shall not apply to: the primary production of food for personal consumption in the household; the preparation and storage at home of foods intended for personal consumption in the household; the production, receipt, processing, labelling and trade in food under article 1 of the Wine and Spirits Act. This Law aims to: ensure a high level of protection of the health and interests of consumers with regard to food; ensure the application of laws of the European Union and of national measures in food sector. This 2020 Bulgarian Law on food addresses several European Union legislative documents through the entire text, including different interactions and updates with national legislation (see final part of the text-Transitional and final provisions (list of amendments and adjustments to these national laws).
The text is divided into eight thematic Chapters as follows: General (I); Requirements for the production, processing and/or distribution of food (II); Specific food requirements (III); Food banking (IV); Official food control (V); Food exports (VI); National food council and branch organizations of food producers, processors and/or distributors and conciliation commission (VII); Administrative and criminal provisions (VIII).