Bulgaria's National Audit Office checked how ministries, agencies and local councils acted on 896 recommendations from earlier audits in 2025 — 324 more than a year before, the office says. It handed its annual report to parliament on 30 September, meeting the legal deadline, covering 360 audits in all.

Recommendations carried out in full reached 604, up from 405 in 2024 — a rise of 199. The office says the jump comes from wider follow-up checks that caught more of the gaps ministries, agencies and municipalities had left unfixed.

During the audits themselves, officials corrected wrong reporting worth 3.37 billion levs — 87% of all the gaps found.

Negative audit opinions fell by 88%, while positive marks for annual financial reports rose by 43%. The biggest jump came from municipalities, where positive opinions grew by 54%.

The office handed out 169 fines for breaking public procurement law in 2025, up from 153 the year before — a rise of 10.5%. It says this is down to tighter checks.

"We picked our audits this year mainly based on topics and areas people care about most," says Dimitar Glavchev, head of the National Audit Office. He named other factors too: signs of problems that could have serious effects, and cases involving large sums of public money. The office also looks at reports of mismatches, tips from outside sources, procurement breaches it has already found, and bad practices seen in past years.

Glavchev added: "The National Audit Office will keep doing its job actively and with a clear aim, working with professionalism and integrity, following the highest international standards, so it serves the public and gives parliament information it can rely on."

In 2025 the National Audit Office marked 145 years since it was set up. The report is posted on the office's website.