With the new state fees, food prices will continue to rise next year.

Branches of food producers are uniting against the new state fees that the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) intends to impose on them, reported Bulgarian National Radio. "In 2026, the growth in food prices will be increased due to increased administrative pressure on the one hand in the budget in the direction of insurance, additional tax burden. On the other hand, our costs are rising due to increased energy and transport costs, and on the third hand, as you see, the administrative burden regarding fees collected by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency. It cannot but affect the cost of production," said Mariana Kukusheva, President of the National Branch Union of Bakers and Confectioners. Given that our obligations to the state budget are increasing, you see that the cost of our products becomes quite different and cannot be accumulated for a long time by us as producers because it would lead solely and only to the liquidation of enterprises, she emphasized. ...