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There is no anonymous route
Every mechanism that works asks for your name. That is not our choice — it is how the law is written.
The Commission for Protection against Discrimination does not examine anonymous complaints (чл. 51, ал. 3 ЗЗДискр). An anonymous report is no basis for criminal proceedings (чл. 209, ал. 1 НПК). The person you file against receives a copy. Commission hearings are open (чл. 61, ал. 1).
If that is dangerous where you are, deciding not to file is a decision, not weakness. The log below exists for exactly that: it keeps your evidence while the circumstances change.
The documents
Each has its own page: what it does, who reads it, what follows — and the text itself. You can print it blank and fill it in by hand.
- Complaint to your employer about harassment at workA colleague or a manager makes a target of you for being LGBTI, and you do not know who to tell, or how.
- Written explanations under чл. 193, ал. 1 of the Labour CodeYou have been handed a demand for written explanations — often not long after you complained.
- Incident logIt has been going on for months and I no longer remember what happened when.
What is deliberately not here
These are missing for a reason, not by oversight. Here is the reason.
- Complaint to the Commission (КЗД)
- „Действие" already run a generator at deystvie.org — use theirs. The choice between the Commission and the court (чл. 52, ал. 2 ЗЗДискр) runs one way only and is not a form question.
- Reporting a crime to the police
- This document cannot be taken back. Once it is filed you cannot stop it. Doctor and photographs first, lawyer second, paper third.
- Signal to a head teacher
- It runs through the parent — чл. 8, ал. 2 ЗЗакрД. For a child who is not out at home, the signal can be more dangerous than the bullying. Under 18: 116 111 is free, 24/7, and does not ask for a name.
- Complaint to the data protection authority after an outing
- The route is real, but an electronic complaint needs a qualified electronic signature and the window is 6 months from discovery. This is the next one we will write.
Three questions before you file
If any of them stops you — stopping is the right outcome.
1. Is there danger right now?
If you are being threatened or beaten — 112, then the crisis lines. The document is not the first thing. The Protection Against Discrimination Act has no emergency measure. The one fast thing: under чл. 76, ал. 1, т. 2 ЗЗДискр the Commission can suspend an unlawful employer order if you ask it to.
Crisis lines2. Who will read it?
The person it is against. Letters arrive at the address you wrote, in an envelope with the institution's name on it. In a twelve-desk office the investigation outs you by Thursday, whatever the letter says. So choose an address for correspondence before you write: if the people at home do not know, a letter from the Commission in the postbox is an outing.
3. If you lose this job in two months — is there somewhere to live?
Retaliation is the usual outcome, not the exception: a demand for explanations under чл. 193 КТ, then a "reorganisation" under чл. 328, ал. 1, т. 3 КТ. The law calls that victimisation and treats it as discrimination (§ 1, т. 3 ЗЗДискр) — but a prohibition does not pay rent. If the answer is no, that does not mean never. It means the log first.
Deadlines
The deadliest mistake: somebody who has been dismissed files with the Commission because the deadline is three years — and misses the two months for challenging the dismissal itself. So both clocks sit on one screen.
| What | Deadline | Runs from | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Challenging a dismissal in court | 2 months | the day of termination | чл. 358, ал. 1, т. 2 КТ |
| Answering a "by mutual consent" offer | 7 days — silence is refusal | receiving the offer | чл. 325, ал. 1, т. 1 КТ |
| Challenging a written reprimand | 1 month | service of the order | чл. 358, ал. 1, т. 1 КТ |
| Appealing a Commission decision — filed THROUGH the Commission | 14 days | notification | чл. 68, ал. 1 ЗЗДискр |
| Appealing a prosecutor's refusal or termination | 7 days | receiving the copy | чл. 243, ал. 4 НПК |
| Private complaint for insult, defamation or threat | 6 months | the day you learned of it | чл. 81, ал. 3 НПК |
| Complaint to the Commission for Protection against Discrimination | 3 years | the act itself — not from discovery | чл. 52, ал. 1 ЗЗДискр |
| Administrative signal, and the Ombudsman | 2 years | the violation | чл. 111, ал. 4 АПК |
| Tort claim for damages | 5 years | identifying the perpetrator — not the act | чл. 110 with чл. 114 ЗЗД |
| Application to the European Court of Human Rights | 4 months | the final domestic decision | Art. 35 § 1 ECHR |
Checked on 14 August 2026. If you are reading this after August 2027, ask a lawyer.
If you think your deadline has expired
Do not stop here. If the harassment is still going on, the clock may run from the last act rather than the first. This is the question to take to a lawyer — at „Действие" that is free.
What is visible
The form has nowhere to submit to. The site is only files, and the rule form-action 'none' in its security policy forbids your browser from submitting the form anywhere at all. Check it yourself in developer tools.
What is visible anyway: that you opened the page. The address and the time pass through your internet provider and through Cloudflare. On a work or school network, their server sees it before you have typed a letter.
So: do not open this on a work or school device, and not over the work Wi-Fi.
What we cannot promise you
We cannot promise you your phone, the office printer, or anyone with access to your device. A phone keyboard learns words — names, the company, the slur — and later offers them in another app. That is what discreet mode and the quick exit are for.
What we have not verified
If we have not seen it in a primary source, we do not assert it. Here that matters more than elsewhere: a wrong deadline costs a case.
- Whether the Commission anonymises names in the public register it keeps under чл. 47, т. 7. We promise no anonymity.
- Whether the Labour Inspectorate examines a sexual-orientation complaint on the merits or forwards it to the Commission. So we send nobody there as a first move.
- The limitation period under чл. 71 ЗЗДискр. The act is silent. We publish no number.
- Whether a court fee is due on the чл. 68 appeal to the administrative court. So we write "free" for nothing after the Commission's decision.
- Whether the state electronic delivery system accepts complaints to the Commission without a qualified electronic signature. We are checking.
- Whether a covert audio or video recording is admitted in evidence. Practice diverges.
- The internal steps of the school anti-bullying mechanism. Its text does not open from a ministry server.
Hand in hand
Here is the text. Here is the deadline. Here is who receives it. The decision is yours.
Legal advice is not with us — it is at „Действие", free, from people who have been running these cases since 2014. We lay out the paper while you decide.
And if you decide to file nothing, that is a decision too. You know your family, your town and your boss better than we do.
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