Deputy Takes Over Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | October 7, 2010, Thursday // 09:02
Deputy Named as Temporary Head of Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund: Deputy Takes Over Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, announced the name of the temporary head of Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund. Photo by BGNES

The Deputy Director of the Bulgarian State "Agriculture" Fund, Svetoslav Simeonov, is temporarily taking over the Fund.

The news was announced by Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, Thursday in an interview for the TV channel bTV.

The move became necessary after it was revealed that the current Director of the Fund, Kalina Ilieva is pregnant and will have to go on maternity leave.

Simeonov is the only Deputy at the Fund whose signature has accreditation from Brussels.

Naydenov further informed he had asked the Fund's Managing Board to submit Thursday a detailed report of their work, adding if indeed they are delays, as the opposition insists, measures would be undertaken.

The Minister did, however, praise Ilieva as a "good professional" and pointed out the average absorption of funds under the EU operational programs in Bulgaria is 4% while the "Agriculture' Fund has absorbed 20%.

The Fund is the Bulgarian payment agency for the EU SAPARD program.

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Tags: Miroslav Naydenov, Kalina Ilieva, Agriculture Fund, SAPARD, Agriculture Minister, farming subsidies, pregnancy, Svetoslav Simeonov

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