Bulgarian Speeding Fine (Electronic Ticket): 30% Off, Driver, Appeal

A speed camera, a red-light camera or another automatic device of the Traffic Police (Пътна полиция, Ministry of the Interior — МВР) produces an electronic ticket (електронен фиш): a fine issued without an officer to the car's registered owner, or its registered user. It states the place, date and time, the plate, the offence, the amount and how to pay. An offence that brings the loss of the licence is not dealt with by such a ticket.

How it is served

By hand, by registered letter to your permanent address, or electronically — through the state's secure e-delivery system or the Ministry's e-services portal (e-uslugi.mvr.bg). Opening an unserved ticket on the portal counts as receiving it, and so does paying it. Refusing the letter does not help: the day of the refusal counts as the day of service.

The periods — from the day you receive it

• 14 days: pay 70% of the fine — 30% off.
• 14 days: if someone else was driving, a written declaration naming the driver, with a copy of their licence (also online with a qualified e-signature); that driver gets a new ticket and yours is cancelled.
• 7 days: a written objection to the director of the regional police directorate — on limited grounds only, such as a stolen car, a technical error or a ticket sent to the wrong person.
• 14 days, or from the refusal of an objection: an appeal to the district court (районен съд), filed through the police.

Not appealed, the ticket becomes final like a penalty decree; a fine the court confirms is owed in full. A ticket handed over on the road (фиш) can be paid at 80% within 7 days. Enter the day you received the electronic ticket and the site counts the 14 days.

A car registered elsewhere in the EU

For speeding, red lights, drink-driving, a phone at the wheel, seat belts and other listed offences, the police find the owner through the EU's exchange of vehicle data and write in a language of that country. The letter gives up to 14 days from receipt to pay — with the same 30% off — or to name the driver. A hire car's ticket reaches the rental company first, as the owner.

Check before you pay

• The plate, the date, the place and the photo — and who was really driving.
• Pay only as the ticket or the Ministry's portal says.

A lawyer for speeding fines can object or appeal in Bulgarian within the periods. Driving without a vignette is a different ticket: see the vignette fine.