About 1,500 prisoners in Bulgaria will come under an amnesty as the government adopted a draft on the Amnesty law.

The law will come into force on the occasion of country's accession to the European Union.

Those who will benefit from the new law are prisoners, jailed for three years for light premeditated crimes, those who have been sentenced for the first time to no more than one year to stay in jail and others.

Some recidivists will also be free if they have up to three months left to serve from their sentence.

Mothers with two or more children will leave the prisons as well under the provisions of the Amnesty law.

Fines that have not been paid for more than two years will be cancelled.

The amnesties will boost the national budget, as the prisoners' costs will decrease, the justice ministry said.

About 15 amnesties have been carried out during the last 60 years in Bulgaria with 3,800 prisoners released in the latest one.

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