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Bosnia's Service for Foreigners' Affairs, SFA, on the orders of the country's Security Ministry, has begun preparing a list of illegal economic migrants for deportation, Slobodan Ujic, the director of the SFA, confirmed to BIRN on Thursday.

Owners of guest houses that are not used for their intended purpose will have to return BGN 4.5 million BGN. Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture, Desislava Taneva, said on July 11 after a check of all such houses in the country.

The State Fund "Agriculture" transferred over 3 million leva (BGN 3 031 795) under the scheme "Aid for compensating farmers for the implementation of measures under the National Program for Pest Control on Perennials during the Winter Period" in 2019. 2,959 producers who grow perennial fruit, strawberries and raspberries received subsidies.

At the order of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Rumen Porozhanov on 30th of April requested the resignation of Deputy Executive Director of the State Fund Agriculture (SFA), Ivanka Bagdatova-Mizova, reports BNT. 

State Fund Agriculture (SFA) transferred over BGN 80 million (80,038,268 leva) subsidies to 41,116 farmers under the Transitional National Tobacco Support Scheme, decoupled from production. This was announced by the SFA.
 
The funds under the scheme are laid down in the State Budget Act for 2019 and are approved by the Management Board of SF "Agriculture".
 

State Fund Agriculture paid BGN 996 645 for 299 contracts concluded under the state aid scheme for co-financing of insurance premiums for agricultural products. A total of 371 applications amounting to a total of BGN 1,822,427 were submitted during the admission period.

Bulgaria's State Fund Agriculture (SFA) has paid nearly BGN 703 000 to a total of 66 farmers affected by the Russian import ban on certain agricultural and food products.

Rumen Porozhanov, CEO of Bulgaria's State Fund Agriculture, has described the completion of the 2007-2013 Rural Development Program as a real challenge.

In a Sunday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio he made clear that projects would be received by the SFA Paying Agency by October 15.

He made clear that the SFA would then have three months to make the payments.

The Management Board of Bulgaria's State Fund Agriculture (SFA) has dismissed the CEO Lozana Vasileva, electing Rumen Porozhanov as her replacement in a unanimous vote.

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Sofia Regional Court has ruled that Miroslav Nikolov, the former head of State Fund Agriculture (SFA), should once again take over the post from which he was dismissed.