Environment minister

I will ask the prosecutor's office to investigate a crime against the environment, Bulgaria's caretaker Minister of Environment and Water Asen Lichev said with regard to the "Vera Su" case. We are talking about two crises - administrative and environmental, Minister Lichev added.

The World Environment Day is celebrated each year on June 5, and in this context, the Minister of Environment, Waters and Forests will launch, as a first in Romania, the trademark "Produced in a Natural Protected Area".

According to an order by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Slaveya Stoyanova has been appointed Deputy Minister of Environment and Water. She has taken the position of Krassimir Zhivkov, who was released due to the affair with the imported waste from Italy.

The Government has encouraged the purchase of new, less polluting cars, through the car park renewal programmes carried out by the Environment Ministry, PM Viorica Dancila said on Monday in the opening of the 2019 European Automotive Industry Forum in Craiova. "Clean technology represents the future.

The global pact for the environment, one of the topics to be discussed on Tuesday with the European Union (EU) environment ministers, represents the consolidated future of the agreement on international environmental legislation, Romania's Minister of Environment Gratiela Gavrilescu said in Brussels on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting of the Environment Council.

A company in Turkey will generate energy by buying organic waste from outside with a license granted by the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning for the first time.

Bulgaria's Environment Ministry has initiated a lawsuit against Yulen AD, the concessionaire of the Bansko ski zone, and is seeking BGN 178 482 in unpaid sums from the company.

The Environment Ministry is seeking unpaid sums amounting to 5% of the annual concession fee.

BELGRADE - The damages to the environment caused by the catastrophic floods in May have been estimated at around EUR 42 million, and Serbia is yet to face some of the consequences, Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic stated on Thursday.

The Turkish environment minister has defended a much-criticized plan to build a thermal power plant at the touristic Black Sea port of Amasra, but also admitted to having his own doubts.

European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard is to arrive on an official visit to Bulgaria on Monday.

She will meet with Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski and Deputy Environment Minister Atanas Kostadinov, according to reports of mediapool.bg.