保加利亚以往几次对腐败相关行为进行刑事定罪的法律条文加以修订，以确保遵行国际反腐败标准。在这方面，保加利亚立法框架关于定罪的实质性条文在很大程度上遵照了《反腐败公约》所述要求。保加利亚刑法典确立了以《反腐败公约》为基础的多数犯罪。刑法典未将私营部门侵吞财产犯罪规定为一项单独的犯罪，而是比照公共部门侵吞财产的相关条文加以起诉，同时考虑到作为在刑法典第 93 条含义内公职人员的人的能力以及被侵吞财产的非公共性质。
The provisions of the Bulgarian legislation incriminating corruption-related conduct have been amended in the past on several occasions to ensure compliance with international anti-corruption standards. In this connection, the substantive criminalization provisions of the Bulgarian legal framework comply, to a large extent, with the requirements set forth in the UNCAC. The majority of the UNCAC-based offences are established in the Criminal Code. The offence of embezzlement of property in the private sector is not stipulated as a separate crime in the Criminal Code, but prosecuted by analogy on the basis of the corresponding provisions on the embezzlement of property in the public sector, taking into account the capacity of the person as an official in the meaning of Article 93 of the Criminal Code, as well as the non-public nature of the embezzled property.