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   "standing_position": "Bulgaria transposes MiCA's tripartite crypto-asset taxonomy (asset-referenced tokens, e-money tokens, and other crypto-assets) without a distinct national classification scheme. The FSC applies ESMA's Guidelines on the qualification of crypto-assets as financial instruments to delineate MiCA-scope tokens from MiFID II-scope securities, implementing them through the national MiCA-transposing legislation rather than separate guidance.",
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   "standing_position": "Neither MiCA nor Bulgaria's national implementing legislation establishes a dedicated licensing or prudential regime for on-chain activities such as staking, DeFi lending, mining, node operation, or validator services as distinct categories. These activities are only indirectly captured where they fall within MiCA's existing CASP service categories (e.g., custody and administration, or portfolio management of crypto-assets); genuinely decentralised, non-intermediated activity generally falls outside MiCA's scope by recital exclusion. This is a jurisdiction-wide (EU-level) gap rather than a Bulgaria-specific omission.",
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   "standing_position": "MiCA Titles III and IV impose a comprehensive stablecoin regime directly applicable in Bulgaria. Asset-referenced token (ART) issuers require FSC authorisation; e-money token (EMT) issuance is restricted to credit institutions or authorised e-money institutions supervised by the Bulgarian National Bank. Both token types carry reserve-of-assets, redemption-right, and disclosure obligations.",
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   "standing_position": "Bulgaria has no crypto-specific tax code; digital-asset gains are absorbed into the general flat-rate personal/corporate income tax system based on 2014 National Revenue Agency (NRA) administrative guidance that has not been publicly superseded. Layered on top from 1 January 2026 is the EU-wide DAC8 crypto-asset reporting regime, which is directly binding regardless of any gap in Bulgaria-specific guidance updates.",
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   "standing_position": "Crypto AML/CFT obligations are out of scope for this baseline: the crypto consumer subscribes to the FIM aml_ctf module and AML-specific claims are not produced here. For disambiguation context only: Bulgaria's AML framework for virtual-asset service providers runs through the Law on Measures against Money Laundering (LMML), with the Financial Intelligence Directorate (FID-SANS) and, per MONEYVAL's follow-up assessment, some technical deficiencies remain around VASP-specific supervision, new-technology risk assessment, and fit-and-proper checks.",
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