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Every public administration must survey citizen satisfaction. Annually. With a report due April 1.

Mandatory Requirement

Administrative Services Ordinance, Art. 24 mandates that all administrative bodies must systematically collect citizen feedback and measure satisfaction.

  • Para. 1: Administrative bodies MUST create opportunities for feedback and periodically research satisfaction
  • Para. 2: Five mandatory methods: (1) surveys, (2) staff consultations, (3) mystery shopper, (4) complaint analysis, (5) media monitoring
  • Para. 3: All five methods are MANDATORY - not optional
  • Para. 8: Annual report by April 1 - published on the institution's website

Art. 25: Must follow an approved methodology for measuring and managing satisfaction.

Administrative Services Ordinance, adopted by Council of Ministers Decree No. 246/2006, last amended SG No. 9/2020

Why Municipal Citizen Feedback Is Mandatory Across the EU

Public administrations across Europe face growing pressure to measure citizen satisfaction systematically. In Bulgaria, 265 municipalities are each classified as administrative bodies under the Administrative Services Ordinance, making satisfaction measurement a legal obligation — not a voluntary exercise. Government inspectorates can flag the absence of documented surveys as a regulatory violation. The same principles apply across the EU through various national transpositions of good governance directives and the Common Assessment Framework (CAF).

In practice, most municipalities historically rely on paper surveys or free online tools like Google Forms, which produce response rates below 2%, lack standardization, and prevent meaningful comparison across periods. kazva.bg solves this with QR codes at every service counter — citizens scan and respond in 30 seconds, generating timestamped, structured data.

Quality Standards for Public Administration

ISO 18091:2019 is the only international standard adapted specifically for local government. Combined with CAF 2020 (Common Assessment Framework), it requires continuous — not one-time — citizen satisfaction monitoring. Over 94 Bulgarian administrations have already implemented CAF, and the trend is expanding across EU member states. kazva.bg provides the data for CAF Criterion 6 (Citizen/Customer-oriented Results) automatically. The mandatory annual report must be published on the administration's website by April 1 each year. With kazva.bg, report generation takes minutes instead of weeks — the platform calculates NPS, categorizes comments, and exports a ready-made report.

What the law requires

Surveys

kazva.bg: Covered

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Staff consultations

kazva.bg: Not covered

Mystery shopper assessments

kazva.bg: Covered

Complaint analysis

kazva.bg: Covered

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Media monitoring

kazva.bg: Not covered

Annual report by April 1

kazva.bg: Covered

Approved satisfaction measurement methodology

kazva.bg: Covered

Applicable standards

Standard Description Relevance
EN ISO 9001:2015 Quality management systems §9.1.2 Customer satisfaction kazva.bg IS the systematic customer satisfaction measurement that ISO 9001 auditors require as evidence.
ISO 10004:2018 Customer satisfaction - Monitoring and measuring §7 Operation THE customer satisfaction standard - kazva.bg's NPS + open text + MC model aligns perfectly.
ISO 18091:2019 Quality management systems - Guidelines for ISO 9001 in local government Annex A diagnostic, Annex B processes Municipal-specific adaptation of ISO 9001 - kazva.bg provides the citizen feedback data the standard requires.

CAF 2020 - 94+ Municipalities in Bulgaria

The Common Assessment Framework (CAF 2020) is the EU quality framework for public administration. Criterion 6 (Citizen/Customer-oriented Results) requires systematic citizen satisfaction measurement.

  • Subcriterion 6.1: Perception measurements - what citizens think. NPS maps directly here.
  • Subcriterion 6.2: Performance measurements - internal indicators vs targets.

94+ Bulgarian administrations have implemented CAF (2019-2022 ОПДУ/EU project, source: EU Funds Bulgaria), with 1,435 officials trained in organizational self-assessment. National CAF Resource Center at IPA (Institute of Public Administration).

Industry benchmarks

Level NPS
Good 30+
Average 15–29
Poor <15

ACSI Federal Government 2025: 70.4/100

No European municipal NPS benchmark exists. Bulgaria has no native customer satisfaction measurement standard - kazva.bg fills this gap.

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