Tareva, Donika2025-07-012025-07-0120252367-5314https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/646According to art. 301, par. 3 of the Criminal procedure Code of the Republic of Bulgaria, when the court has missed to rule the civil action, it could held an additional decision in the appeal period. By its existence and consequences this act is not distinguished form the sentence. The additional sentence has also the same content: an introduction, dispositive and grounds. It also has the same strict requirements for form, content, structure, legality, reasonableness and fairness. These requirements comes from the fact that similar to the sentence, the additional sentence is characterized by the effect of res judicata.othercriminal justiceadditional sentencelegal requirementsres judicata effectArticle