The Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Ms. Atanaska Nikolova will open the "Together to Bluеing the Black Sea" event on the International Black Sea Day. .

Representatives of the Black Sea Commission, the Office of the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area, BSEC, the World Bank, parliamentarians, local government officials and academia will take part

The event will mark the long-standing, joint efforts for the protection of the Black Sea and the results achieved. The participants will discuss also the prospects for improving the state of the marine environment in the long term and future cooperation initiatives.

The results of the ranking of project proposals under the "Small Grant Scheme for Marine Litter Reduction Measures" of the Environment Protection and Climate Change Programme of the EEA Financial Mechanism will also be announced.

The virtual meeting will take place on October 30 (Friday) from 10:00 to 12:00, through the Zoom platform. Anyone can join us on https://www.moew.government.bg/

On October 31, 1996, the Strategic Action Plan for the Rehabilitation and Protection of the Black Sea was signed. The plan was drafted in relation to the Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution (the so-called Bucharest Convention) signed in 1992 by the six Black Sea countries - Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine. The event aims to draw public attention to the opportunities to improve Black Sea environment and ways to protect it. Due to its specificity, the Black Sea is one of the most vulnerable marine ecosystems in the world. In order to preserve its vitality and resources, there is an increasing need for intensive human activities at sea to be very carefully assessed and applied more sparingly.