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Author
Atanas Ivanov, Doctor of Law (Civil Procedure), Judge, Varadin Belyov
Annotation
By a decision of 13.03.2020 at the National Assembly, a state of emergency was introduced due to the crisis caused by the Coronavirus. This also led to the adoption of measures, with a view to overcoming the same, with the Act for Measures and Actions during the state of emergency, announced by a decision of the National Assembly of March 13, 2020, State Gazette No. 28 / 24.03.2020.
Internationally, such measures have been introduced in other European countries in order to curb the accumulation of people and thus prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. obligations and performance of contracts.
This, in turn, intensified the interest of the parties to the commercial transactions to issue a certificate of force majeure, with a view to the possibility of releasing this document from liability of the party in case of default or delayed execution of a commercial transaction caused by force majeure, as may be introduced. state of emergency. The certification of force majeure (force majeure) is carried out with a force majeure certificate issued by the respective institution, which in the Republic of Bulgaria is mainly the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This article will focus on the substantive and procedural dimensions of the force majeure certificate.
Keywords
force majeure, certificate, non-execution, evidential force, claim, process, right of defense
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