Bulgaria Bans Construction on Sand Dunes

Society » ENVIRONMENT | February 28, 2013, Thursday // 14:42
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Bans Construction on Sand Dunes The scandal with construction activities on 29 decares of protected sand dunes between Ravda and Nessebar on the Black Sea coast erupted in the last days of 2012. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's lawmakers have accepted legislative amendments banning construction activities on sand dunes across the country's Black Sea coast.

The amendments were proposed by Bulgaria's Regional Development Ministry in January.

The scandal with construction activities on 29 decares of protected sand dunes between Ravda and Nessebar on the Black Sea coast erupted in the last days of 2012 when environmentalists said that the area was part of the Aheloy-Ravda-Nessebar protected area from the Natura 2000.

As a result, it became clear that the area was sold without a tender based on an older law that was in force until 2010. The new Forestry Act, passed in 2011, technically does not provide any way of selling State land without tenders but it said it allowed procedures that started before 2010 to be completed under the older law.

In the aftermath, Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, ordered Bulgaria's Ministers of Regional Development, Agriculture, and Environment to update the Forestry Act, the Environmental Protection Act, the Biological Diversity Act, and the Black Sea Coast Organization Act "so that such deals and construction projects couldn't be allowed."

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