Subsidies — who receives the money

The state pays subsidies along several lines. The largest is farming: the State Fund Agriculture is Bulgaria's paying agency for the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and it is the one with the most detail here — across financial years 2015–2017, 2021–2025. Below it are the other streams: to municipalities, for the railways, for cinema and for the parties.

Who receives the money

  • Largest recipients — companies ranked by the amount received, each with its own profile, so subsidies can be read alongside the same firm's public contracts and EU funds.
  • By scheme — from basic income support to investment measures, eco-schemes and emergency aid.
  • By province — a map of payments by oblast.
  • Untraceable recipients — around 40% of the money sits on rows with no ЕИК. That does not mean „individuals": those rows include unmistakable companies and municipalities. It means the payments cannot be attributed to a specific recipient.

Concentration and links

  • Concentration — how the money splits between the top 10, the top 11–100, the top 101–1000 and every other firm. A small group takes a disproportionate share of the legal-entity money.
  • Politically linked — recipients where a public figure holds a role recorded in the Commerce Registry or the non-profit register. A recorded role: not ownership, and not an irregularity.
  • Across other programmes — the same firms in public procurement and in ИСУН. The three kinds of money are shown separately because they are on different bases and are never summed.

The data

  • All payments — the full table by year, recipient and scheme.
  • Coverage and sources — which financial years exist and which are missing.

The state subsidises beyond farming: transfers to municipalities, the railway subsidy, film subsidies through the НФЦ and party subsidies under the ЗПП. Those streams are annual and each is on its own basis — they are not added together. The budget's own „Subsidies" line is on budget spending.

The fund's own public procurement is on the State Fund Agriculture page. See also EU funds and public procurement.

Sources: data.egov.bg (State Fund Agriculture payment open data) and the public register of the fund's electronic-services system for the current years.

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