The municipalities affected by the recent floods will be exempted from payments for the deposition of landfilled waste, which currently amount to 95 BGN per ton. This was announced by the Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova, who signed the order today.   According to the instructions in the order, no fees will be paid for d...

The Ministry of Environment and Water is inspecting the progress with the implementation of the technical reclamation projects for the remaining 8 old municipal waste landfills. They are in the municipalities of Byala (Varnensko), Pernik, Velingrad, Dupnitsa, Pirdop, Boboshevo, Kocherinovo, and Kardzhali.  At the beginning of August, the Mini...

  The Deputy Minister of the Environment and Water Petar Dimitrov and the Director of the Basin Directorate “East Aegean” Vasil Uzunov this late afternoon visited sections of the Stryama River, which overflowed its bed. It was established that the river got out of its bed at the bridge in the town of Banya near the Plovdiv-Karlov...

  The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Bulgaria H.E. Temirtai Izbastin. The green transition and Bulgaria’s experience in applying the high European standards for environmental and water protection were the focus of the meeti...

  The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) can now forecast dangerous phenomena such as strong winds, extremely high or low temperatures, storms, heavy rainfall not only at the level of districts, but also for each of the 265 municipalities on the territory of Bulgaria. This was announced today by the Minister of Environment...

  An international team of scientists and experts is to begin its work on putting together a map of habitats and species within protected areas in the Bulgarian Black Sea aquatory. “The main activities under the project ‘Natura 2000 in the Black Sea’ are starting and include research and mapping of the distribution of natur...

  Twenty underground water facilities in the country are already equipped with multi-parameter probes for automatic measurement of physico-chemical indicators. Both local storage of the measurement data from the multiparameter probes and their transfer to a remote computer - server has been enabled. Access to the relevant data generated in re...

  In relation to inquiries by interested parties, the deadline has been extended until 16.09.2022 for submission of opinions, proposals, recommendations, and comments on the proposed general, priority, specific, and detailed environmental protection objectives for the two protected areas located in the Kresna Gorge area (protected area for ha...

  Among our main priorities is to undertake urgent measures in relation to the infringement procedures against Bulgaria in the environment field. At the moment there are 16 such procedures at different stages. This was stated by the Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova, who together with deputy ministers Reneta Koleva and Pe...

The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova met with mayors and municipal representatives from municipalities, which failed to carry out the obligations related to the implementation of reclamation activities for old landfills. In a total of 8 municipalities - Byala, Pernik, Velingrad, Dupnitsa, Pirdop, Boboshevo, Kocherinovo, and Ka...

Caretaker Minister of Environment and Water, dr. eng. Rositsa Karamfilova took office, taking over from Borislav Sandov. She received the symbolic key of the Ministry of Environment and Water from her predecessor. “I am handing over the Ministry of Environment and Water to Rositsa Karamfilova with the confidence that it remains in the hands ...

  The implementation of 180 initiatives has begun under the “Youth for Environment” Program of the Ministry of Environment and Water, which was announced in June. The activities were proposed by civil society organizations, community centers, school boards, youth networks, and environmental protection associations country-wide an...