Central
Central government is responsible for:
Youth Policy
- The overall policy;
- Public Health, and
- Education.
- Coordinates central and territorial bodies for the implementation of youth policy
- Cooperates with youth organisations in the delivery of youth policy
- Manages, organises and coordinates projects in the field of youth policy.
- Supports youth volunteering.
Sport policy
The State encourages the development of physical education and sport by:
- Providing possibilities and appropriate conditions for the citizens to practice sport for a healthy and long life;
- Creating normative provisions for the physical education and sport in the country;
- Creating conditions and supporting the sport for all;
- Constructing, maintaining, modernising and managing sport sites and installations;
- Assisting, coordinating, regulating and controlling the activity of the sport organisations, and
- Financing the programmes and projects for socially useful sport activity.
Regional
District authorities are responsible for:
Youth Policy
- District Governors prepare the district youth plans which collate municipal youth plans
- Coordinating the youth policies between the State and the Municipalities.
Sport Policy
No competencies identified at district level.
Local
Municipal authorities are responsible for:
Youth Policy
- Implementation of municipal youth policy in line with national youth policies
- Prepare annual municipal youth plans
- Encourage volunteering
- Education and public health, and
- The funding of reception facilities.
Sport policy
The Municipalities encourage the development of physical education and sport by:
- Programmes for the development of the local sport activity in compliance with the national program;
- Constructing, maintaining and modernising sport and tourist sites and installations;
- Assisting the organisation of sport competitions;
- Exercising financial, economic and control functions, and
- Creating conditions for development of public-private collaboration.
- Providing access to people with disabilities to sports facilities constituting municipal property
- Municipal sports schools
Responsible ministries/bodies
Ministry of Youth and Sports
Sources
Zakon za Fizicheskoto Vyzpitanie (BG)[Physical Education and Sports Act], last amended 13.08.2019
Zakon za mladejta (BG) [Youth Act], last amended 13.03.2020
