Today at 6pm the old landfill near the town of Dupnitsa, which was closed by order of RIEW-Pernik in 2017, auto-ignited. The most feasible reason for the autogenous ignition is high temperatures. The signal for the fire was submitted by citizens to RIEW-Sofia. The Inspectorate immediately issued an order to the Municipality of Dupnitsa to undertake...

The years-long neglect of the problem with the slow pace of closure and cleaning up of old municipal landfills, which do not comply with European legislation - neglect at both local and national level, is the direct reason that entailed the notification by the European Commission on 15.07.2021 that our country will be brought before the Court of Ju...

Regarding a number of false allegations by the former Minister of Environment and Water Emil Dimitrov, which undermine the prestige of the MOEW and personally of Minister Asen Lichev, we declare: Upon taking office, the Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev received, in the presence of the new political cabinet, from his predecessor only...

Today, the European Commission (EC) sent a letter to Bulgaria, stating that the country will face the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) to pay huge financial penalties due to failure to restore 43 landfills for non-hazardous waste. The Court of Justice of the EU ruled against Bulgaria in July 2015 for its failure to close old municipal l...

The government approved the Bulgarian position for the informal meeting of EU environmental ministers, which will be held on July 20th and 21st, 2021 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The agenda of the meeting envisages a ministerial exchange of initial views on the legislative package “Adaptation to 55%”. The package constitutes the European Co...

Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Emilia Toncheva and experts from the Directorate “National Service for Environmental Protection” met with representatives of the citizens from Byala Municipality (Varna region), who were protesting in front of the MOEW building. They asked questions related to the process of expanding the protect...

A Concept for the development of specific and detailed objectives for protected areas of the “Natura 2000” ecological network has been drafted. The document is a result of the joint efforts by experts and representatives of NGOs and the Ministry of Environment and Water. It has been developed on the basis of a report by the Institute fo...

The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev issued an order declaring a 300-year-old tree under protection within the territory of the village of Glavanovtsi, Municipality of Trun. The tree is of the Qersus cerris type, 22 meters high and with trunk circumference of 3.90 meters. The order prohibits uprooting, cutting, pruning, breaking branc...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating Operational Program “Environment” (OPE). This was stated by the Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev at a briefing at the Ministry of Environment and Water. According to him, the European Prosecutor’s Office had informed the Ministry that it was to exercise it...

New data show that there is no danger of pollution on the Bulgarian coast after the explosion at an oil refinery in Romania. The analysis was carried out on the basis of a computer simulation, which covers the period 2nd – 10th July 2021. For this time period there is no entry of objects moving on the sea surface in the Exclusive Economic Zon...

There is no danger for the Bulgarian coast from a possible spill from the explosion in the oil refinery 25 km North of the Romanian city of Constanta. This is indicated by a computer simulation that covers the first 24 hours after 7p.m. today. The simulation was prepared by the “Center for Integrated Management and Monitoring of the Coastal Z...

In response to the explosion in an oil refinery 25 km North of the Romanian city of Constanta, RIEW-Varna took immediate action to identify possible transborder air pollution. A mobile automatic station for air quality control will be positioned in the village of Durankulak, Municipality of Shabla. According to data from the Varna branch of the Na...