The EC‘s decision to discontinue the infringement procedure, started in 2007 over the construction of an integrated waste management system in Sofia, is now final, she said. The second of the three procedures is over water – with the adoption of the Water Act the infringement was dropped. The third procedure concerns the Environment Protection Act – we recently amended it, transposing texts regarding big high-risk enterprises, Minister Vassileva stated.
She added that mapping of the marine protected areas would start by the end of the year under OP Environment. The large-scale project which aims to extend the Natura 2000 protected areas network to the waters of the Black Sea amounts to 11 million leva.