site.btaCommercial Register Partially Reopened after Glitch

Commercial Register Partially
Reopened after
Glitch

Sofia, August 15 (BTA)-  As of the morning on Wednesday, the
Commercial Register and the register of NGOs are back in partial
 operation after a glitch shut down the system on Friday, the
Registry Agency said. Company status checks have been resumed,
expected to be followed by phased resumption of all other
functionalities in the coming days.

The Registry Agency confirmed Monday that the situation was due
to a technical malfunction which is not caused by malicious
external interference, or by a cyber accident. An emergency plan
 has been activated for restoring the full functionality of the
registers. Emergency teams are working round-the-clock to fix
the problem.

Dye to the nature of the technological processes, full
functionality is expected to be resumed not earlier than next
week.

The Registry Agency also said that mishandling data in the
Commercial Register is impossible.

At the regular weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers on
Wednesday Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev too said that
the full functionality of the Commercial Register will be
restored within several days.

Donchev said that as of Monday, the E-Governance State Agency
has been conducting a check of the state of hardware and
software of all state electronic systems. A report with the
findings is expected by the end of the week.

"By law, each database needs to have double and triple back-ups
but apparently, this is not enough," Donchev said, adding that a
 solution will be found to guarantee the security of the
electronic systems "technically and statutory". He said that the
 glitch with the Commercial Register showed the fragility and
vulnerability of the system that is being migrated to the
electronic governance platform.

Donchev said also that within ten days a proposal will be made
for a single state data storage facility where each government
entity will upload a copy of the electronic information it works
 with.