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 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...

RIEW-Sofia will impose an administrative violation penalty for the illegal landfills found in the area “Verdikal” on the territory of the capital district “Bankya”. During the inspection on May 21st, inspectors found pollution by construction waste, packaging waste, and parts of discarded vehicles. Under the Waste Managemen...

The site for the installation of an automatic measuring station for air quality in Ruse has been determined by a protocol from 31st May  2021 by a working group consisting of experts from the Municipality of Ruse, the MOEW, the Executive Environment Agency (EEA), RIEW-Ruse, and the Regional Laboratory-Ruse with the EEA. The Municipality of Ru...

A total of 20 trucks with plastic waste detained at the border with Turkey are gradually being returned under strict control by MOEW authorities to their point of dispatch in Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, and Bulgaria. On May 21st, the Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water (RIEW)-Stara Zagora received a signal from t...

RIEW-Sofia carried out a non-routine inspection of arable agricultural land in the area of ​​Verdikal, Bankya district. During the inspection it was established that in properties located along two field roads there are sites with accumulation of contaminants of household waste, packaging, construction, biodegradables, and parts of end-of-life vehi...

A contract was signed on May 29th 2019 for setting up a water management system in the Iskar River basin, as the first phase of the National Real-Time Water Management System, worth 4.45 million BGN, VAT excluded. The deadline for execution of the contract is 420 calendar days. At the end of this week, it will be two years since the contract was si...