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...

The Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Emilia Toncheva, the Director of the Rila National Park Krasimir Andonov, the Director of RIEW - Blagoevgrad Angel Georgiev and an expert from the National Service for Nature Protection at the MOEW visited the site of the accident over the town of Belitsa, whereby a brown bear attacked a woman early this...

The government approved Bulgaria's position within a legal case before the Court of Justice of the European Union imposing sanctions on the country for non-compliance with its obligations on air quality. Bulgaria has provided information showing that it has taken measures to ensure compliance with the decision by the Court of Justice of the EU fro...

On proposal by the Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev, the government approved additional 8,584,747 BGN to be transferred to the budget of the 2021 Ministry of Environment and Water for the needs of the Executive Environment Agency (EEA). This alleviates the burden on the budget of the Ministry of Environment and Water by nearly 8.6 mill...

“As long as there is no unified management of the water sector, all institutions are pulling the rug in their direction, whereby the interests of the people remain neglected.” This was said by the Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev in the show "Studio Ha" on 7/8 TV. Asked about the protests by residents of Brestovitsa becaus...

Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Petar Dimitrov visited the village of Baikal, Municipality of Dolna Mitropolia, on the occasion of the Danube Day. The initiative included art painting, a presentation of a mobile laboratory for river water testing and a lecture by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tihomir Stefanov from the National Museum of Natural History...