The Ministry of Environment and Water is the main partner for the bTV initiative “Let’s clean Bulgaria together”. The large-scale volunteer campaign will take place on September 17 (Saturday). It aims to build public awareness about environmental protection. The Minister with her team and employees of the MOEW, the Enterp...

  The Ministry of Environment and Water will participate in the European Commission’s annual European Mobility Week campaign. The theme in 2022 is “Better Connections”. Traditionally, the week takes place from September 16th to the 22nd. After placing a strong emphasis on the health aspects of urban mobility in 2021, this y...

  The Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva met with representatives of industry associations to discuss recycling of packaging and the possibilities of introducing the deposit system in Bulgaria. “For Bulgaria, it is important to attain the recycling goals set for EU countries, and reduce landfilling accordingly. The ...

  “None of us wants to close down large combustion plants. The complex permits issued define the conditions under which each of these plants can operate. Non-fulfillment of these permits results in a violation of environmental norms, and this leads to the termination of their activity until compliance.” This was stated by the Mini...

  The Minister of Environment and Water Rositsa Karamfilova met with representatives of the World Bank to discuss  the implementation of the “Agreement on the provision of services in support of the development of River Basin Management Plans and Flood Risk Management Plans for Bulgaria”. The meeting was joined by the Deputy ...

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...