Working as a plumber in Bulgaria
What official sources say about working as a plumber in Bulgaria: how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
Plumber is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria. Foreign qualifications go through: Employer assesses the foreign professional qualification for the generic non-regulated role. NACID academic-degree recognition may be requested separately where a foreign degree needs equivalence; it is not a professional licence. In Bulgaria, plumbers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Regulation
- Not marked regulated
- Recognition route
- Employer assesses the foreign professional qualification for the generic non-regulated role. NACID academic-degree recognition may be requested separately where a foreign degree needs equivalence; it is not a professional licence.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Regulation and recognition
Plumber is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria.
- Recognition route
- Employer assesses the foreign professional qualification for the generic non-regulated role. NACID academic-degree recognition may be requested separately where a foreign degree needs equivalence; it is not a professional licence.
- Recognition authority
- For a non-regulated profession, NACID says the employer is competent to recognise the foreign professional qualification; no profession-wide national recognition authority is identified.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for plumber in Bulgaria: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Plumber in Bulgaria: recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 9c8ddfb267a091ca96757dc3bfdac172]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/plumber/bulgaria/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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