Year 1990. On January 5 a Decree of the Council of Ministers closed the State Security Sixth Directorate. Meanwhile the issue of the former SS files had already been brought out at the Round table. On August 23 the Seventh Grand National Assembly established а 7-man committee presided by Bulgarian Socialist Party deputy Georgi Tambuev who had the difficult task of announcing the State Security collaborators in the parliament.
 
Year 1991. The Tambuev committee’s activity ceases after a series of publications in Fax newspaper leading to the announcement of 33 deputies’ names on April 23, who had been collaborating to the SS Sixth Directorate. The list is not an official document but it raises scandal and blocks the process of opening of the former SS files.
 
Year 1992. Action is brought for the SS files to be destroyed. Reserve office general Atanas Semerdjiev and reserve general Nanka Serkedjieva have are accused of razing 144 235 files of the former SS. On December 13 that year, the retiring Prime Minister Philip Dimitrov issues Ordinance KB 215, which specifies that  each deputy will be able, upon payment of 100 BGN, to obtain a document from the Ministry of the Interior, containing information whether he was collaborating to the former State Security (with the exception of First and Sixth Directorate).
 
Year 1993. The 36th National Assembly, upon proposal of the Union of the Democratic Forces Lyubomir Pavlov, adopts Resolution №14 which runs as follows, “the ingelligence of the methods, means and the agents’ information of the SS for the time period until 13 October 1991”. The resolution has not been put into effect as of this moment.
 
Year 1997. The 38th National Assembly adopts the first Access to the Former State Security and the General Staff Intelligence Directorate Files Act. The committee, established on the basis of this law and presided by the then Minister of Interior Bogomil Bonev, publicized in the National Assembly the names of the 2 politicians and civil servants who used to work for the former State Security. At that time, 14 of them are deputies of the parliament. It was not a lustraton law. However, decree №10 of the Constitutional Court prevents announcing the names of the people who were affiliated to the SS, of whom only registration documents have been preserved – i.e. the category of the so called “indexed” ones.
 
Year 2001. The 38th National Assembly ammends and supplements the Access to the Former State Security and the General Staff Intelligence Directorate Files Act. Within its range are the documents of the former intelligence department of the Border troops. The “Bonev” Committee is replaced by two newly established committees – a 7-man permanent one, whose chairman is Metodi Andreev, and another one, not permanent, whose chairman is Georgi Ananiev. It is summoned at the request of the chairman of the first committee and definitely determines a certain person’s affiliation to the former SS or the General Staff Intelligence Directorate. On May 30 that year the Constitutinal Court, approached by 54 deputies, passes judgement  that the law was not anti-constitutional, with the exception of a single text, which was duly canceled. The “Andreev” Committee comes out with 10 reports altogether, dealing with the announcement of affiliation. On the grounds of this law the applications of 23 thousand citizens, 44 thousand mayor candidates and municipal councillors, and 1504 candidates for high offices were examined. According to this law the files remain in possession of the special services.
 
Year 2002. On April 24 the 39th National Assembly passed the Classified Information Protection Act which repeals the Access to the Documents of the Former State Security Files Act and ceases the activity of the committee. On September 29 the Consultative Council rejects the request of 57 deputies to claim as anti-consittutional the Classified Information Protection Act. That month the Supreme Court of Cassation sentences general Atanas Semerdjiev to 4 years and 6 months and general Nanka Semerdjieva to 2 years in prison for razing the files.
 
Year 2006. The 40th National Assembly adopts a new Access to the Former State Security and the General Staff Intelligence Directorate Files Act, according to which the documents of the former secret services pass into possession of a 9-man committee, presided by Evtim Kostadinov. It is elected on April 5th that year.
 
Year 2007. The mission It's our task to raise the curtain
After a noisy public discussion and a long expert research on 19 December 2006 the Law for Access and Disclosure of the Documents and announcing affiliation of Bulgarian citizens to the State Security and the intelligence services of the Bulgarian National Army was adopted by the 40th National Assembly. Seventeen years after the changes Bulgaria reached the agreement to collect the documents of the former secret services, to protect and preserve them as history and to give the citizens access to them.
It is not a lustration law by nature. Its application has a moral meaning. History is the best teacher for the future. But only when the society finds out the truth - be it pleasant or unpleasant. When the secrets are unveiled and the lessons of the past are followed.
It was time for us to shed ourselves even from the last dark dependances between those people who were subordinate to the link that the former State Security created. Such dependances that formed in them the state of mind that they were more priviledged, different, and more informed. People, who have always tried, during all the years of transition, to be Bulgaria's puppeteers.
Truth is often painful. Let us all make our own assessment - in terms of our own prejudices, understandings, and knowledge of the time.

 2012 year. The 41st National Assembly elects a new composition of the Commission - Term II again with Evtim Kostadinov as chairman.

Balance with a view to the future - During the first term, the Commission strictly followed the law and largely fulfilled its main tasks - to establish and declare dependencies on former secret services of public figures, to provide people with access to a centralized archive to store them. The second term of the Commission is called to bring things to an end. With even more precise and large-scale work, it will continue to inform the public about the people who headed the country in the years of transition and shaped its consciousness. To help reach the most accurate answer to the question of who, how, whether and for what purpose pulled the strings of power behind the scenes, because only in this way can we understand why the transition in Bulgaria happened in this way.