Ciela Regulations is a reference (legal) information software that is most commonly used by lawyers, managerial staff, employees in state and municipal administration, as well as by any other users, whose work requires handling and knowledge of legislative documents.
Ciela Regulations is a reference (legal) information system providing access to Bulgarian legislation. The system is being updated after each issue of the State Gazette. In order to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the consolidated texts of statutory instruments, quadruple check is carried out upon each import. The product is used by ministries, state agencies, commissions, companies, attorneys and law firms, courts, etc.
WHAT IS THE CONTENT OF THE PRODUCT
• Statutory instruments: codes, acts, decrees, rules, regulations, ordinances, instructions, tariffs, methodologies, etc. – both in force and repealed ones, previous editions of the complete documents, as well as of separate elements thereof (such as articles, paragraphs, items, annexes); hyperlinks between documents.
• Draft laws and stenographic records of the National Assembly. Hyperlinks to the document source, the website of the National Assembly as well as to any regulatory framework mentioned.
• Public consultations (draft legislation, including ordinances, regulations, etc.). Also, there is an option to get information about the future amendments to the legal framework before their promulgation in the State Gazette.
• Departmental regulations of ministries, correspondence of the Ministry of Finance, the National Statistical Institute, National Revenue Agency, Commission for Protection of Competition, Commission for Protection against Discrimination, acts of Sofia Municipal Council, other ministries, departments, commissions.
• Classification of documents based on the body issuing them. For easy operation with documents issued by one and the same body.
• Classification of documents by legal field, legal structure of documents. Ease of use of documents from the same legal field.
• Time limits Module. Brief outline of time limits defined in the legislation with the option to be visualized in the form of a calendar.
• Articles and annotations of articles on legal issues.
• Bibliography of the law literature published.
• A number of dictionaries - Glossary of legal definitions, English-Bulgarian Law Dictionary, Roman law - glossary of key terms, Legal Terminology Dictionary
WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONALITIES
Some of the key functionalities of our product are the following:
• Modern interface with an option to change the style. Option to set the size and font of the text.
• Functionality for working with legislative documents - selection of edition; comparison between editions; view with a previous version; classifier by structure; document map.
• Tracking changes in a certain statutory instrument and reporting of the effected changes.
• Previous editions of statutory instruments and of each separate article.
• Exporting texts in Word or PDF format.
• Heuristic search - text search with functionality, allowing users to search the way they do with Google.
• Different types of searches for this product specifically - advanced search by various criteria; controlled search by abbreviations of documents; Search in a list of documents; search in a document currently opened.
• Hyperlinks and cross-references between documents.
• Handling user structures - creating structures and layout of documents selected by the user.
• User notes to documents. Option to add reminders to notes.
• History of documents opened and searches made for easy access to previously opened documents.
• Copying and printing out complete texts of documents or highlighted parts thereof.
• Acts entering into and coming out of force for the period of time during which the system has not been used.
• Functionalities to work with the available dictionaries.