Professional experience in the field of criminal justice, offenders management, prisons and probation reform, human rights.

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CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Family name: Stoyanov
2. First name: Daniel
3. Date of birth: 28.07.1967
4. Passport holder: Bulgarian
5. Residence: Bulgaria
6. Education:
Institution (Date from - Date to) Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
United Nations Office of Drugs and
Crime, UNDOC Global E Learning
[10.07.2019 – 18.07.2019]
Certificate on
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of
Prisoners
University for National and World
Economy, Centre for Legal Research
[16.03.2019 – 14.04.2019]
Training in mediation
Certified Mediator
Network for Enhanced Electoral and
Democratic Support, Brussels,
Belgium [02 – 07.11.2009]
Legal and Elections Analyst,
Additional training
Department of philosophy of “St.
Kliment Ohridski” University Sofia,
Bulgaria [22 – 25.03.2003]
Structural funds. Project financing for the period – 2007 – 2014,
Additional training
COLPI and Ministry of Justice of the
Republic of Poland [07 – 10.11.2001]
Probation service in the European Union accession
countries, Additional training
Law Department of “St. Kliment
Ohridski” University, Sofia, Bulgaria –
[10.1987 – 12.1992]
Master of Law
7. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic)
Language Reading Speaking Writing
Bulgarian Mother tongue
English 1 1 1
Russian 1 1 1
Spanish 5 5 5
Azerbaijany 5 5 5
8. Membership of professional bodies: Registered Mediator in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic
of Bulgaria official database; Individual Member of Confederation of European Probation (CEP)
9. Other skills (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.): Excellent command of MS Office Tools, Internet and Web
Applications, Network Administration; fast adoptable in multicultural environments, capacity to work
under pressure and to meet expected and tighten deadlines;
10. Present position: Director, Head of advocacy department and Deputy head of correctional
programs’ department at “Center for support of sentenced persons”; Project Director and Legal
Expert of “Association for reintegration of sentenced persons” (ARSP);
11. Years within the firm: 22 years law practice, 19 years with ARSP;
12. Key qualifications (Relevant to the project):
Experienced lawyer in the penal, civil and administrative law
19 years of professional experience in the field of judicial, prison and criminal justice reform,
13 years experience in probation, community sanctions and measures and electronic
monitoring;
Strong background in capacity building in the field of human rights, judicial, criminal justice and
prison reform, including offender management: designing training programmes, developing
training materials, delivering trainings and evaluating the outcomes, coordinating cooperation
between offender management agencies;
Excellent organisational and presentation skills demonstrated as a trainer to representatives of
judiciary and prisons' staff and in organizing and leading numerous seminars and trainings with
judges, prosecutors and prisons' administration on practical implementation of relevant
international standards and best practices;

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Long practical working experience and deep knowledge in project development and management
of internationally allocated grants (EuropeAid, EIDHR, USAID, FCO, PRAG amongst others);
Experienced in Project Cycle Management, LogFrame approach and different types of evaluation of
EU policies and grants;
Strong analytical abilities and excellent developed skills of drafting legislation proposals or
amendments, in comparative research and studies of different law systems and legal
frameworks;
Thorough knowledge and internationally recognized expertise on the international human rights
documents and soft law in the relative field of civil and political rights, including best practices,
standards and policies of EU in the field of fundamental rights and criminal justice;
Deep knowledge of the international standards and expertise in the implementation of rule of law
and international human rights standards in newly established democratic countries;
Proven ability of developing general nationwide awareness rising/advocacy campaigns for protection
the rights of vulnerable groups such as prisoners and minorities, as well as specific campaigns aimed
at the judiciary and governmental officials;
Excellent advocacy and lobbying skills for the achievement of defined aims, demonstrated
ability to act, negotiate and communicate at high political level in very sensitive political
contexts;
Proficiency in English and Russian.
13. Specific experience in the region:
Country Date from – Date to
Bulgaria 10.1997 – at present
Armenia 09. 2012 – 12. 2012
Azerbaijan 09.2016 – 09.2018
03.2008 – 12.2013
10.2004 – 11. 2005
Tajikistan 11.2008 – 12.2008

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14. Professional experience:
Date from- to Location Company & reference person Position Description
1. September
2016 –
September
2018
Baku,
Azerbaija
n
European Union funded project:
“Supporting the development of
the judicial system and
improving the services provided
by the agencies that implement
criminal court orders in
Azerbaijan”
Dr. Fabian Sennekamp (Mr.)
Project Manager
Particip GmbH - Your partner in
change
Merzhauser Str. 183
D - 79100 Freiburg
Germany
Phone: +49 761 79074 31
Fax: +49 761 79074 90
E-Mail:
fabian.sennekamp@particip.de
Community
Sanctions Expert
Long term key expert implementing following activities under project’s component II
Offenders Management System:
Organizing and participating in 5 trainings of probation staff on community work and
one study visit;
Assisting the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Republic of Azerbaijan by
a) identifying necessary amendments to existing legislation;
b) development of specific probation legislation proposals;
c) developing an organisational structure and identifying the financial, physical, and
human resources needed;
d) preparing operational instructions on pre-trial reports and electronic monitoring;
Elaborating a report on the current level of coordination on key offender management
issues among the departments of MoJ involved;
Working with participating departments to agree improved future cooperation and the
practical issues that should be covered;
Drafting pilot probation project for supervision of conditionally sentenced and early
released offenders;
Drafting pilot probation project for the implementation of electronic monitoring and
methodology for monitoring its implementation.
2 January 2015
– March 2015
Brussels/
European
Commissi
on/ Sofia
European Commission / GD
JUSTICE / Unit A4 Programme
management
Jana Hošková
Programme Manager
MO59 04/083
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Tel: +32 2 299 4487
Fax : +32 2 298 8812
jana.hoskova@ec.europa.eu
External evaluator Evaluating 6 project proposals as head evaluator and 5 proposals as second opinion
evaluator of the GD Justice call Projects to support European judicial training –
JUST/2014/JTRA/AG/EJTR;
Writing grounded opinions on the proposed evaluator’s score and preparing 6
consolidation reports for the Project committee of European Commission.

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3 March 2013 –
March 2015
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director of ARSP,
Email: aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Team Leader and
senior legal
expert
Project: Everyone has the Right for a Second Chance-Advocacy Campaign for Removing
Discriminatory Barriers in Reentry financed by Open Society Institute/Human Rights
Fund.
Responsible for the:
→ General project’s management and the supervision of established 4 project’s
teams – 14 people;
→ Leading the law team for the elaboration of an extensive legal research of
Bulgarian legislation and providing law analysis for the presence of discriminatory
clauses in regard sentencing;
→ Participating as a trainer of 240 sentenced persons on a rehabilitation programme
for preparation for leading law abiding live at freedom;
→ Elaboration of a policy report providing practical recommendations to state
authorities for legal changes and adoption of a strategy in regard the post-
penitentiary support of former convicts;
Leader of the project’s public awareness campaign – elaborated communication
strategy, designed agenda, organised, prepared roundtable and conference, public
events, information materials for the project activities; met with journalist;
4 May 2014 –
December
2014
Bulgaria Ministry of Justice / Central
Prisons’ Administration /
Valentina Karaganova
Head of Department Social work
and rehabilitation of prisoners
Email: gdin@abv.bg
+ 359 888 466 334
Legal expert Project: Enhancement of the implementation of non-custodial sanctions and measures
in compliance with EU and CoE standards with focus on electronic monitoring
 Responsible for the compliance of the drafted legal acts to the Recommendations
of CoE in the field of probation and community sanctions and measures;
 Drafting legal acts for the implementation of electronic monitoring in Bulgaria as
means for reducing the overcrowdings in Bulgarian prisons;
 Participating as a trainer in seminars for training judges and prosecutors on the
implementation of electronic monitoring.
5 June 2013 –
July 2013
Brussels/
European
Commissi
on/ Sofia
European Commission / GD
JUSTICE / Unit A4 Programme
management
Michael Brown
Programme Manager
Criminal Justice and Drug
Prevention Information
Programme
MO59 04/056
B-1049 Brussels/Belgium
Tel: +32 2 296 1562
Fax : +32 2 298 8812
michael.brown@ec.europa.eu
External evaluator Evaluating 9 project proposals as head evaluator and 9 proposals as second opinion
evaluator of the Criminal Justice call JUST/2013/JPEN/AG;
Writing grounded opinions on the proposed evaluator’s score and preparing 9
consolidation reports for the Project committee of European Commission.
6 September
2012 –
December
2012
Armenia European Union Delegation to
Armenia
Task Manager David Avakian
Team Leader Project: TA to the RA Ministry of Justice on penitentiary system reforms, including the
establishment of a probation service under Framework Contract
EuropeAid/127054/C/SER/Multi; Lot 7: Governance and Home Affairs

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Date from- to Location Company & reference person Position Description
21 Frik St., 0002, Yerevan,
Armenia
Telephone: +374 10 54 64 94
Fax: +374 10 54 64 95
e-mail:
david.avakian@eeas.europa.eu
 Responsible for the preparation of:
1. a strategy paper on the establishment of a probation service in Armenia, which
includes legal, administrative, human resources and economic aspect; for this
purpose a comparative analysis was made between the judiciary strategies of other
CIS countries;
2. a three year action plan indicating objectives, activities, implementation
timetable,
responsible bodies and objectively verifiable criteria;
3. a three-year indicative timetable clearly setting priorities and duration of
activities;
4. a capacity building package including the drafting of a training programme for
trainers (ToT) on the topic “What is probation and how probation services work”,
the organization and holding of one training seminar at the Law Institute of the
Ministry of Justice including training material for the participants;
5. relevant procedures and guidelines including drafting of “Operational guidelines
on social enquiry reports, pre-sentence reports and evaluation reports prepared by
the Probation Officers of Probation Service of the Republic of Armenia”.
 Ensuring the overall quality of services and inputs provided by all experts foreseen
by the main contract;
 Reviewing, final editing and quality assurance of all key documents produced by
the team of experts;
 Managing the budget for workshops and the translation of the elaborated
materials;
 Providing Inception Report with a detailed workplan;
 Providing the final report and its review according to the EC’s comments.
7 December
2011 – at
present
Bulgaria Centre for support of sentenced
persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director of ARSP,
Email: aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Director; Head
of advocacy
department;
Deputy head of
correctional
programs’
department
 Responsible for the overall management of the Centre and coordination with
prisons’ administration and probation offices;
 Responsible for the day to day contacts with regional and district courts and
prosecutors’ offices;
 Supervising the early release procedure, monitoring of sentenced persons’
behaviour in custody and probation and the advocacy efforts in their favour;
 Responsible for the implementation of correctional behaviour programs for
persons in custody and on probation, participating as a supervisor in the legal
aid programs and evaluating their outcomes;
 Reporting to the Ministry of Justice and prisons’ administration violations of
prisoners’ human rights.
8 March 2009 –
February
2011
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced prisoners
Team Leader Project: Advocacy Campaign for fighting Overcrowding and Discrimination in
Bulgarian Prisons financed by Open Society Institute/Human Rights and Governance
Grants Program/Penal Reform and Rights of Detainees.

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Date from- to Location Company & reference person Position Description
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
 Managed budget of 164 000 USD;
 Responsible for the overall implementation of the project, evaluating and reporting;
 Led team of 4 local senior and 3 local junior legal experts;
 Advised prison administration, prosecution, judiciary on the European
standards for the application of early conditional release and alternative
sanctions and measures;
 Leader of the project’s public awareness campaign – elaborated communication
strategy, designed agenda, organised, prepared roundtable and conference, public
events, information materials for the project activities; met with journalist, organised
the shooting of 8 short documentary movies, aired on national TV;
 Carried out legal research and analyze, drafted law amendments in Criminal
Code, elaborated and drafted sub law act;
 Advocating and lobbying at high executive level for the adoption in the
legislation of the proposed law amendments;
 Organized and facilitated 2 workshops, 4 trainings, 1 roundtable and 1
conference with prisons’ staff, probation workers, judges and prosecutors -
total 240 participants;
Main outputs delivered/ results achieved:
 Elaborated policy report with recommendations for the improvement of early
conditional release in Bulgaria and distributed to prisons’ administration,
prosecutors and judiciary;
 Carried out extensive advocacy campaign among the relevant stakeholders (prison
administration, prosecution, judiciary and other institutions) for positive change
and effective and objective implementation of the alternative to imprisonment
measures, with special focus on parole in Bulgaria;
 Raised from 8 – 10 % the number of early released by the court prisoners in the
previous years up to 15,4 % in 2010
9 November
2008 –
December
2008
Tajikistan IFES (International Foundation
for Electoral Systems), USAID
Anthony C. Bowyer, Program
Manager, Caucasus & Central
Asia, IFES, Tel. +1 202-350-
6821, Email: abowyer@ifes.org
Election law and
Parliamentary
expert
Project: Professional Electoral Assistance and Reform
 Election Law and Parliamentary expert for IFES’ USAID funded project on a field
mission in Tajikistan
 Elaborating, advocating and lobbying at high political level for adoption of
amendments, aimed to improve and democratize the Tajiki election legislation.
10 March 2008 –
December
2013
(the group
had meetings
3 times per
year)
Azerbaija
n
Joint working group for the
implementation of International
human rights standards in
Azerbaijan
Jamalov Shahin, Chairman of
the JWG
Azerbaijan, Baku, Mirkasimov
street 4/41, AZ 1007
(+ 994 12) 441-09-24, 408-27-
53
Chairman, Vice
Chairman,
Member
Expert on human
rights and judicial
reform
 Elaboration of Strategy Documents on human rights issues and
independence of the judiciary in Azerbaijan;
 Led team of 12 foreign senior legal experts and 12 local representatives of NGOs,
president’s administration, police and judiciary towards implementation of justice
reform projects;
 Elaborated strategy and work plan for its implementation;
 Drafted and assessed projects for applying in front of international donors and
governmental institutions;
 Worked and liaised with the governmental officials on politically sensitive issues;
 Monitored the application of HR standards in Azerbaijan;
 Worked with senior governmental officials on sensitive issues concerning HR

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Date from- to Location Company & reference person Position Description
Email: office@humanrights-
jwg.org
http://humanrights-jwg.org
protection;
 Worked with NGOs assisting them in their efforts to implement Human Rights
Standards;
 Technical advice and expertise on the implementation of international human
rights standards and the rule of law in Azerbaijan.
11 October 2007
– October
2009
Bulgaria,
Paris,
Strasbour
g
Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe
Eugenia Jivkova, Member of
Monitoring Committee
Email: evgenia.jivkova@abv.bg;
+ 3592 9630505
Advisor on human
rights, electoral
issues and
judiciary reform
 Provided policy and legal advise at high international political level;
 Conducted legal and political researches and analyzes, evaluation of electoral and
human rights legal acts, elaborated policy and legal reports, drafted
recommendations for PACE resolutions and opinions, advised on political sensitive
issues such as political prisoners, freedom of speech and assembly, compliance of
the Electoral legislation with the recommendations of the Venice Commission,
criminal justice system, etc.
12 November
2008 –
August 2009
Bulgaria Foundation for Local
Government Reform
Irena Boneva - Program
manager
tel.: +359 2 976 89 89
e-mail iboneva@flgr.bg
External evaluator Evaluation of European Economic Area Grants/Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway/ Grants,
NGO Fund – Bulgaria, Sub – programme Protection of Human Rights.
 Evaluating 65 project’s proposals towards the requirements of the granting
organization and giving opinions in writing in favour or against financial awarding of
the proposal.
13 February
2005 –
December
2005
Azerbaija
n
Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Project Director Project: The issue of the political prisoners in Azerbaijan - Development and
Implementation of an effective mechanism for a civil control, self-funded by the
Association
 Monitored the implementation of the project activities, managed budget of 68 980
USD and evaluated the outcomes;
 Team leader of 12 foreign and 8 Azerbaijani legal experts;
 Leader of the final international projects’ conference;
Main project activities and results achieved:
 Conducted legal research and comparative analyze of 129 cases of political
prisoners for their compliance with the international human rights standards;
 Developed new universal criteria for the definition of political prisoner, adopted at
the international final project’s conference;
 Carried out public awareness campaign on internet, printed and electronic media in
Azerbaijan about the significance of the political prisoners problem;
 Sent appeals for pardoning of 20 prisoners whose cases showed inconsistence and
violations of internationally recognised human rights and lobbying for their
pardoning. As a result 10 prisoners were pardoned by the Azerbaijani President.
14 27th
December
2002 – 27th
October 2003
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
Project Director Project: Optimization of the collaboration between Social Activity Department and
Security and Regime Department in the places for imprisonment in Bulgaria financed
by European Commission, European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights
(EIDHR-2000)
 Overall management and implementation of the project, monitoring, evaluating

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Date from- to Location Company & reference person Position Description
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
and reporting to the Delegation of EU Commission in Bulgaria;
Main project activities and outputs achieved:
 Supported the penitentiary system reform in accordance with the European
standards and best practices achieving substantial transformations in soft law
regulations of the job descriptions, duties and obligations of prison staff and
effective collaboration between two of the basic departments - social and secure
and regime activities.
 Conducted in-depth interview among the high-ranked prisons’ administration and
representatives of the two departments;
 Conducted diagnosis analysis of the existing practice regarding the interaction, gap
analysis;
 Defining, classification and arrangement of the problems;
 Developed recommendations for changes in the existing structure and
function of penitentiary system and implemented in the practice of 13
Bulgarian prisons new organizational structure and operational functions;
 Developed new job descriptions for penitentiary staff and implemented in their
everyday work;
 Designed training modules with the personnel in the penitentiary institutions;
 Designed and developed methodology and presentations for the training of
prisons’ social workers and prisons’ guards on the new models for
collaboration between social workers and wardens in the different stages of
social prison’s activities
 Organized 3 training seminars with total 216 representatives of prisons’ staff
and acted as a trainer.
15 October 2002
– October
2003
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced prisoners
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Project Director Project: Chance for a Descent Life in the Free Society funded by Economic and
Business Development Program – OSI Employment Re-entry Initiative For Ex-
offenders Open Society Institute – New York.
 Managed budget of 39 000 USD;
 Responsible for the coordination of project activities and reporting to the
international donor.
Main project activities and results achieved:
 Developed specialized module program for professional orientation and
qualification of the imprisoned, whose release will be after 6 months;
 Developed and designed brochures and handbooks for the professional orientation
and qualification program;
 Developed and carried out 4 professional courses for 60 prisoners within three
months;
 Developed curriculum for 6 month training for illiterate prisoners (reading and
writing skills);
 Carried out literacy training for 40 prisoners;
 Prepared materials and carried out Training of Trainers for implementation of
module programs in other prisons;
 Organized and carried out public awareness and information campaign for the
general public and employees in the south-west region for popularizing the

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activities in the resocialization center (RC)
 Provided training for 4 assistants of the ARSP on providing post-penitentiary help;
 Stakeholders/beneficiaries: prisoners from the Bobov dol prison; employees from
the region, prison’s social workers who worked closely with the inmates from the
RC.
16 March 2002 –
February
2012
Bulgaria President of the Republic of
Bulgaria
Georgi Mitov, Chairman of the
Pardon Board, Email:
gmitov@dir.bg; + 359 886 834
383
Member of the
Pardon Board
 Participating at the meetings of the Pardon Board – high level state administration
service;
 Providing legal advice and consulting; reporting prisoners’ pardon applications at
the meetings of the Pardon Board, voting in favour or against proposed case for
pardoning;
 Studying and reporting applications for pardoning of persons sentenced on
probation, community sanctions and measures at the meetings of the Pardon
Board and giving grounded opinions in favour or against proposed case for
pardoning.
17 November
2001 –
November
2002
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Project Director Project: Training of the Supervision and Security Staff in the Prison System on the
Application on the International Legal Standards with the Treatment of Prisoners -
Stage 2001 – 2002 financed by COLPI/OSF.
 Responsible for the overall management and implementation of the project,
monitoring, evaluating and reporting to the donor;
 Developed training methodology, materials and presentations on the
International Human Rights Standards, European prison rules, practice of the
European Court of Human Rights;
 Lecturer and trainer at the organised 12 trainings for 540 prisons’ guards.
18 March 2001 –
September
2002
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Project Director Project: Reform of the Policy on Penitentiary Social Work financed by the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office (FCO)/Penal Reform International (PRI)
 Responsible for the overall management and implementation of the project,
monitoring, evaluating and reporting to the FCO/PRI;
 Drafted correctional offenders treatment programs and methodology for their
implementation, facilitates trainings of social workers in prisons and judges
on their implementation at the organized 5 projects’ workshops.
19 May 2000 –
June 2001
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Project Director Project: "Training of the Supervision and Security Staff in the Prison System on
the Application on the International Legal Standards with the Treatment of
Prisoners" - Stage 2000 – 2001 financed by COLPI/OSF.
 Responsible for the overall management and implementation of the project,
monitoring, evaluating and reporting to the donor;
 Developed training methodology, materials and presentations on the
International Human Rights Standards, European prison rules, practice of the
European Court of Human Rights;
 Lecturer and trainer at the organised trainings for 739 prisons’ guards.
20 June 1999 –
December
1999
Bulgaria Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
Project Director Project: "Training of the Penitentiary Staff on the Application of the International
Legal Standards with the Treatment of Prisoners" financed by COLPI /OSF.
 Responsible for the overall management and implementation of the project,
monitoring, evaluating and reporting to the donor;

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aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
 Developed training methodology, materials and presentations on the
International Human Rights Standards, European prison rules, practice of the
European Court of Human Rights;
 Lecturer and trainer at the organised trainings for high ranked prisons’ staff,
judges and prosecutors – totally 159 persons
21 June 1999 to
date
Bulgaria,
Azerbaija
n
Association for reintegration of
sentenced persons
Daniela Petrova,
Managing Director, Email:
aprls@abv.bg;
+ 359 899 011 897
Project Director
and Senior Legal
Expert
 Responsible for the overall implementation of the projects, monitoring the projects’
activities, evaluating projects’ results and reporting to international donors;
 Acting as a facilitator and trainer at the organized by the Association conferences,
workshops and seminars with prisons’ administration and staff, prosecutors and
judges;
 Carrying out legal research and analyze, drafting amendments and proposal
for changes of the criminal laws and drafting sub ordinary law acts.
22 October 1993
to December
2016
Bulgaria Own Law office and individual
practice
Daniel Stoyanov
Mladost 3, bl. 304, entr. 2, Sofia,
Bulgaria, 1712
Email: stoleo@yahoo.com
+ 359 899 474 112
Freelanced
Lawyer
 Practicing civil and penal law, representing clients before courts and administrative
bodies.
15. Other relevant information (e.g. Publications):
- 25 June 2012 – included as an expert in the database of independent experts able to assist the EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DIRECTORATES-GENERAL
HOME AFFAIRS AND JUSTICE in the field of justice, freedom and security - 2007/S 140-172522 in the following priority fields: Criminal Justice and Prevent
and combat criminality;
- 14.02.2008 - Successfully passed European Personal Selection Office Competition: EPSO/CAST27/4/07 - CAST27 – FG IV Profile - Project Advisor and
included in the reserve list for work within EU institutions;
- Participation in working groups for drafting laws (participation upon invitation of the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice):
- 2013 – Member of a joint working group for the elaboration of legal analysis of Bulgarian legislation and drafting sub-ordinary legal acts for the implementation
of electronic monitoring in Bulgaria;
- 2009 - Team Leader and member of a joint working group for elaboration of an Ordinance for the application of the early conditional release in Bulgaria
and draft amendments in Penal Code;
- 2005 - Member of a working group making the draft law for amendments in Penal code adopted in the middle of 2006.
- April- July 2003 - Member of a working group making the draft law for applying the probation in Bulgaria and the relevant amendments in Penal code
and Penal Execution Code, adopted at the end of 2004;
- 2001 – 2002 Member of a working group making the draft Law for execution of Punishments, adopted at the end of 2002.
Publications:
- D. Stoyanov – Legal analysis “Discriminatory clauses in Bulgarian legislation in regard the presence of a criminal record”, Publisher: ARSP, 2013.
- D. Stoyanov – Policy Report “Optimization of the early conditional release in Bulgaria as means for fighting overcrowding in Bulgarian prisons”, Publisher:
Briag, 2009.

11. CV Daniel Stoyanov revised April 2016 11/11
- D. Stoyanov, ‘Collaboration between Prison Administration and NGO’s concerning the training of Prison’s Administration’, D. Stoyanov, N. Petrova, P. Vasilev,
Pl. Kirov, T. Minev, Project ‘International Law Standards for the Treatment of Prisoners’, Association for Re-Integration of Sentenced Prisoners, Publisher:
Faber, 2001, p. 188-199;
- D. Stoyanov, ‘Methodology and training program for prison staff on International Law Standards for the Treatment of Prisoners’, D. Stoyanov, N.
Petrova, P. Vasilev, Pl. Kirov, T. Minev, Project ‘International Law Standards for the Treatment of Prisoners’, Association for Re-Integration of Sentenced
Prisoners, Publisher: Faber, 2001, p. 11-18;
- D. Stoyanov, ‘Problems concerning the penitentiary activities in the view of prison reform in Bulgaria’, D. Stoyanov, N. Petrova, P. Vasilev, Pl. Kirov, T.
Minev, Project ‘International Law Standards for the Treatment of Prisoners’, Association for Re-Integration of Sentenced Prisoners, Publisher: Faber,
- D. Stoyanov, ‘Methodology and training program for training of trainers among prison staff on International Law Standards for the Treatment of Prisoners’, D.
Stoyanov, N. Petrova, P. Vasilev, Pl. Kirov, T. Minev, Project ‘International Law Standards for the Treatment of Prisoners’, Association for Re-Integration of
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