/ world right this moment information/ That is the primary legislative try to control the exercise of collectors, affecting over 1 million folks
Tomorrow, June 1, 2020, at 11:00 a.m., the chairperson of the Civic Platform “Stand Up.BG” Maya Manolova will introduce a invoice for the regulation of assortment firms. This can happen within the constructing of the Nationwide Meeting at “Knyaz Alexander I” Sq. No. 1 (entrance from “Knyaz Dondukov” Blvd.), reverse the Council of Ministers.
In response to information from the Affiliation of Assortment Companies in Bulgaria, in 2018, collectors collected claims from residents in 1,221,227 circumstances for a complete of BGN 1.418 billion with a mean quantity of debt of BGN 1,161, it’s written within the causes for the invoice.
The modifications prohibit the gathering of claims by debt collectors, if the buyer contract doesn’t comprise the specific written consent of the debtor to have his obligation collected by a debt collector, in addition to the latter being specified particularly. With Manolova’s modifications, contacts of the collector with employers or family members and neighbors of the debtor are prohibited. Water provide firms, power distribution firms, district heating firms and cellular operators will now not be capable to switch folks’s obligations to collectors. Debt collectors are prohibited from charging some other debt assortment charges apart from principal and authorized curiosity. The switch of debt to a second, third and subsequent collector turns into invalid.
Within the causes for the invoice, the introduction of a register for the gathering firms and regulation of their exercise is argued for the primary time in over 20 years. In case of systemic violations of the debt assortment guidelines, the gathering firm shall be deleted from the register and shall be prohibited from working. There will even be sanctions – a advantageous for workers of assortment firms as much as BGN 1,500, and for assortment firms 5% of the turnover, however not lower than BGN 5,000, for every particular person case of violations.
The draft regulation amends and dietary supplements six associated legal guidelines, together with these on client safety, client credit score, credit score establishments, and digital communications.
The legislative modifications are addressed to the Prime Minister and Chairman of GERB, Boyko Borisov, to the Speaker of the Nationwide Meeting, Tsveta Karayancheva, and to the folks’s representatives from all parliamentary teams, in order that the regulation will be entered instantly into the legislative program of the forty fourth Nationwide Meeting.
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