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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (INECP) of the Republic of Bulgaria 2021–2030, updated in 2024.

Today, 01.08.2025, the Ministry of Environment and Water announces that in connection with the fulfillment of Bulgaria's obligations as a country of origin, in accordance with the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (the Espoo Convention) and Article 34(1) of the Ordinance on the Conditions and Procedure for Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programs, the Minister of Environment and Water has notified the following affected parties of the (strategic) environmental assessment procedure for the Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (INECP) of the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030, updated in 2024:

Austria, Greece, Romania, North Macedonia, and Serbia

Attached to each of the letters ref. No. EO-3/31.07.2025 are a notification under Article 10(1) of the SEA Protocol, a draft integrated energy and climate plan, with a deadline set for the affected parties to respond as to whether they will participate in the transboundary (strategic) environmental assessment of the draft Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (INPEC) of the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030, update from 2024 – within 15 days from the date of receipt of each of the letters.

Deadline for submitting opinions and/or questions on the documentation – by 01.09.2025.