Bulgaria received an invitation to acquire “Participant” status in the Committee on Environmental Policy at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev was informed by letter from the OECD Secretary General Matthias Corman about the OECD Council decision to upgrade ...

On 10.08.2021 experts of the RIEW, the Basin Directorate “Black Sea Region”, and the Regional Laboratory - Burgas at the Environment Executive Agency inspected the sewerage system of the village of Sinemorets in the presence of a representative of the Municipality of Tsarevo.  The inspection was ordered by the leadership of the Mi...

On 10.08.2021 RIEW-Montana received information from the border checkpoint “Danube Bridge Vidin-Calafat” that a truck with construction waste, plastic cable ducts, bags with pieces of cable, bags of cement, and pieces of furniture had been detained at the checkpoint.   The carrier is an individual, who claims that after renovatio...

In the last days of the term in office of the caretaker government, the Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev approved the updated Areas with a significant potential flood risk. A total of 127 areas have been identified throughout the entire country, which are located in the four basin management regions. With the approval, the first stage ...

The MOEW will propose to the Council of Ministers changes to the Ordinance on the use of surface waters, which are to attain its compliance with the Water Act.   The proposed amendment revokes a regulation currently in force, which contradicts the provisions of the Water Act in the part for required documents for the extension of a permit fo...

The MOEW will submit amendments to the Water Act to the Council of Ministers for discussion. The new texts supplement and specify the restrictions on water abstraction from surface waters and more precisely from inland rivers.   The Collegium at the Ministry of Environment and Water reviewed the Act amending and complimenting the Water Act, ...

The Ministry of Environment and Water proposes to the Council of Ministers a draft restriction on the import of non-hazardous waste categorized under the 19 12 12 code. The proposal is based on the Waste Management Act and is related to the implementation of specific waste management measures set out in the National Plan for Waste Management for th...

Around 9000 tons of non-hazardous waste under the 19 12 12 code are stored at the waste storage site in Pleven. The waste is under the form of bales, over 90% of which are constituted of plastic waste, the rest being a mixture of textiles, paper, and wood. The waste is of Italian origin, received under notification IT 010861 (Decision YO125/02.11.2...

RIEW-Pleven prescribed to “Monbat” AD to fulfill its commitments under a memorandum between the company and the Ministry of Environment and Water.   The memorandum stipulates that the company will retrieve and treat at its own expense the waste generated by an unknown generator, which had been handed over to a third parties on th...

The government decided to amend the lists of protected areas for the protection of natural habitats and of wild flora and fauna. The amendments specify the boundaries of 44 protected areas for protection of natural habitats from the “Natura 2000” network. An analysis has been done to specify the boundaries of all currently undeclared p...

Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Reneta Koleva met with the President of the European Waste Management Association (FEAD) Peter Kurth. The Deputy Minister presented Bulgaria’s waste management policy, as well as the challenges faced by the country in the transition to circular economy. “As an EU member state, Bulgaria is making...

We accelerated the procedure for construction of the route under the “Petrohan” pass, said the Minister of Environment and Water Lichev in response to a question during parliamentary control. The question came from GERB MPs about the procedure for environmental impact assessment for the “Pre-investment study for the route in the d...