“The Ministry of Environment and Water is currently working on new legislative provisions on the sites, which are collecting and processing scrap,” Deputy Minister Evdokia Maneva said on Monday. Late last week the Constitutional Court repealed the amendments to the Waste Management Act, stipulating that only sites, located in settlements with actual General Development Plans (GDPs), are allowed to operate.

According to Maneva, the new provision will include any plans envisaged under the Spatial Planning Act. These are regulations for urban development, general development plans, urban and territory development plans, which cover the entire settlement and play the role of GDPs. In this way, most of the existing sites for scrap will continue their activities Maneva said.