A Dishonorary Diploma was given to the Municipality of Harmanli. The municipality does not provide information if verbally requested. The officials use as an excuse an unwritten mayor’s order. However, the mayor does not provide information on written requests either. The mayor has already lost two access to information cases in court initiated by the citizen Ivan Atanasov, who is recognized with a 2012 Right to Know Day diploma.

The Padlock anti-award was given to the Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Service in the town of Varna.The institution is dishonored because of an incident with the citizen Kancho Bonev on April 24, 2012. The Head of the Service called the security officer when the citizen tried to leave the building with the unsigned certificate which was to verify the receipt of the provided information. The citizen did not get factual access to the requested information but was beaten and got an eye-bruise instead.