During the Consultative Council on the European Green Deal, the Ministry of Environment and Water presented the vision and course of action of the new European policy, which offers opportunities to make sustainability a reality and identifies the challenges ahead of Europe. The proposals of the “Fit for 55%” legislative package...

On the day of national mourning in memory of the victims of the two tragic incidents on the territory of the country, Minister Asen Lichev on his own behalf and on behalf of the entire team of the Ministry of Environment and Water, sent memorial wreaths to the Embassy of the Republic of North Macedonia in Sofia and to the mayor of the village of Ro...

The Sixth Call for Proposals for the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) starts today and spans from 23 November 2021 to 12 January 2022. Each year, the European Climate Initiative announces a call for project ideas, whereby non-profit organizations from EU Me...

The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev signed orders for updating the areas of ​​two protected territories – the Mantaritsa Reserve and the maintained Varbov Dol Reserve. The two protected areas were declared in 1968 by order of the Minister of Forestry and Forest Industry. Given the time of the declaration, the map material for t...

The Ministry of Environment and Water announced public consultations on the specific and detailed protection objectives for the 13 protected areas within the “Natura 2000” ecological network. The objectives were developed by an expert team headed by the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Science...

“The environment can do without humanity, but humanity cannot do without it”. This was the message the Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev addressed to the two winners in the first edition of the competition for students with high academic achievements “Green Support for a Sustainable Future”. Minister Lichev awar...

The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev issued a decision approving the amendment to the Forestry Management Plan of the Territorial Division “State Forestry Gabrovo” with the main motif that the amendment of the plan is unlikely to have a significant negative impact on natural habitats and habitats of species subject to prote...

The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev informed by letter the Road Infrastructure Agency that in respect to two notifications it submitted concerning investment proposals for road repair and rehabilitation there is no grounds to require an environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure or to assess the need for an EIA.   One of t...

The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev rejected the request by Toma Belev, Chairman of the Management Board of the Association of Parks in Bulgaria, to impose a coercive administrative measure to stop the construction on a property in Sinemorets, Municipality of Tsarevo, Burgas region. The investment proposal is for a villa – a two...

The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev informed the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria by letter about actions the MOEW had taken on the requested comprehensive inspection of the project for the construction of an insect farm in the area of ​​the Sofia village of Lozen. In response to the concerns of the residents of the village of L...

The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev announced five century-old trees protected in the territorial scope of RIEW-Stara Zagora and RIEW-Blagoevgrad. By order of the Minister, the common chestnut (Castanea sativa) in the yard of the church “St. Martyr George” in the village of Enina, Kazanlak municipality, Stara Zagora regio...

By letter to RIEW-Pazardzhik, the MOEW instructs the competent authority to request a new EIA report on the investment proposal by “Assarel Medet” AD for expansion of the industrial area of the enterprise in Panagyurishte, by which the ten-year-old case would find a lawful solution. The MOEW carried out an EIA procedure on this investm...