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The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) repealed as illegal texts of an ordinance regulating the construction of bumps on the roadway to limit the speed of traffic, effectively prohibiting the placement of “recumbent policemen”. This is clear from official announcement to the court.

The Supreme Court annuls the attacked texts because the principles of legality, equality and accessibility, publicity and transparency, of justification, stability, openness and coherence have been violated by the administrative body. Thus, “lying down policemen”, any other cross road markings and means of reducing the speed will be possible only after the adoption of rules in a correct and legal order.

With the normative act in question, already in 2012, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Interior created the rules for the construction or installation of artificial bumps and other means of limiting the speed of traffic on the roadway. However, the main points in it are contested before YOU by an individual.

And now, the five-member panel of the Supreme Court of Appeal annuls the main texts of the regulation. The reason is that before the submission of a draft of a normative act, it must be published on the website of the relevant institution together with the reasons, and the interested parties must be given at least 14 days for proposals and opinions on the draft.

The supreme judges accept that in this case it is not enough that in a letter from 2012 the deputy the Minister of Regional Development and Public Works has notified the Minister of Transport, the Executive Director of the National Association of Municipalities and Regional Governors in the country that the draft of the regulation has been published on the website of the MRRD. According to the Chief Magistrates, it cannot be ascertained from this statement from which to which date the draft was published and whether the report and reasons were actually published as required by law.

The Supreme Court claims that the opinions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, that due to a technical impossibility related to the archiving of data from the servers that supported the ministries’ websites in 2012, are not sufficient at all, they cannot present evidence for the publication of the draft regulation on the website. The term of preservation of the documents reflecting the main activities in the state and municipal institutions is 20 years, the judges remind. In view of this provision, the sample from the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications should have been part of the administrative file upon the adoption of the ordinance, even more so in view of the indefiniteness of the contestation of the by-laws.

YOUR decision is final.

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2024-03-01 23:34:24


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A draft decision for special merits to the Bulgarian state and nation to be granted lifelong state monetary awards in the amount of BGN 500 per month to 107 people and in the amount of BGN 350 per month to another 26 people, deputies from GERB submitted today to the National Assembly. The awards are given for the outstanding achievements of the mentioned musicians and their overall contribution in the field of culture, and the implementation of the decision of the National Assembly is entrusted to the Minister of Culture. The petitioners are Boyko Borisov, Toma Bikov and Denitsa Sacheva from GERB.

For years, there has been a struggle for the granting of these so-called “personal pensions” for prominent cultural figures – mostly musicians, singers, composers, whose work experience and insurance documents had disappeared years ago after a fire in the archives of the Concert Directorate. Thus, they could not document that they worked and provided for themselves.

Among the new recipients of state monetary bonuses in the amount of BGN 500 are Stefka Berova, Yordan Marchinkov, Bogdana Karadocheva, Vasil Naydenov, Hristo Kidikov, Margarita Hranova, Panayot Panayotov, brothers Blagovest and Svetoslav Argirovi, Rositsa Ganeva, Kamelia Todorova, Georgi Hristov, Neli Rangelova, Kristina Dimitrova, Petya Buyuklieva, Krasimir and Violeta Gyulmezovi, Eva Naydenova, Kiril Marichkov and Valdi Totev from “Shturtsite”, Yordan Karadzhov from “Signal”, Mitko Shterev, Iliya Angelov, Georgi Stanchev, Stanislav Slanev (Stanley), Veselin Marinov , Silvia Katsarova, Milcho Katsarov, Veneta Rangelova, Alexander Kiprov, Mimi Ivanova and Razvigor Popov, Rumen Boyadzhiev, Konstantin Tsekov and Ivan Lechev (FSB), Rositsa Kirilova, Bogdan Tomov and many more.

Among the second group – winners of lifetime monetary awards in the amount of BGN 350, are Ivan Tenev, Dariana Genova, Alexander Petrov, Georgi Nachev and others.

Some of the names on the list are of veterans, others are of artists who are still actively performing. During the soca years, all of them were highly valued, especially in Eastern Europe, and successfully promoted the Bulgarian musical genius around the world, note the proponents of the proposal.

The submitted draft decision aims to compensate all persons who worked and exercised their profession as full-time employees of the former State Association “Music”, for which a lack of official documents regarding work experience in the state archives was found, the reasons state. “We propose through the adoption of the decision to grant state monetary awards for special services to the Bulgarian state and nation to express the well-deserved recognition to the musicians and their teams, who glorified the name of Bulgaria around the world,” the proposal also reads.

The lifetime pensions will be granted under the Law on awarding persons for special services to the Bulgarian state and nation, adopted during the time of Vezhdi Rashidov as Minister of Culture. Although in practice it is about pensions, when the law was passed, there were disputes as to how appropriate it is to call these payments without proof of insurance service. Therefore, in the end, it was decided to call the honor “state monetary award”. The law has been used sporadically over the years, and this is the first time it will apply to so many people.

The determined amount is below the minimum pension for length of service and age, which is currently BGN 523.04, and from July 1 it will become BGN 580.57.

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2024-02-29 22:47:50


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Germany has ordered 120,000 shells from Bulgaria, which it will deliver to Ukraine. This is clear from the agreement announced by Germany to supply hundreds of thousands of artillery ammunition to Ukraine. The news was reported by the German edition “Spiegel”, citing sources from the German Ministry of Defense and was quoted by BGNES.

The publication claims that 120,000 artillery shells, announced by the German government on February 16 as part of the new military aid package, were ordered by Bulgaria.

According to the press release, all agreed Bulgarian ammunition must be handed over to Ukraine in 2024.

General Christian Freuding, head of the Bundeswehr Situation Center in Ukraine, noted that there is no shortage of money. For 2024 alone, Germany has allocated around 7 billion euros. The main problem remains the availability of ammunition on the world market.

Bulgarian ammunition

The 122 mm artillery shells are Soviet-era ammunition. They are used in D-30 howitzers and self-propelled howitzers 2C1 Gvozdika, which are widely used in the Ukrainian army, the publication Militarnyi recalls. Bulgaria is a producer of projectiles of this caliber and one of the largest players on the world market in the niche of Soviet weapons.

The main producer of these projectiles in Bulgaria is the “Dunarit” plant in Ruse. It manufactures a wide range of Soviet-era artillery ammunition, including 122mm split-load shells.

However, due to the high demand for weapons caused by the Russo-Ukrainian war, Bulgaria is also rebuilding other capabilities that have been conserved in recent decades.

At the end of 2023, it was announced that after 35 years of inactivity, the Bulgarian plant in the city of Kostenets, owned by the state holding TEREM, will resume the production of 122 mm shells. This plant ceased production of 122 mm shells in 1988.

It is possible that the plant received a share of the German order for the supply of ammunition to Ukraine.

In connection with an article by “Spiegel”, which claims that German aid to Ukraine will be Bulgarian shells, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov commented: “I have no idea what exactly they mean. Bulgaria produces shells that are exported. As far as I know, so far we have no direct exports to Ukraine, but anyway it is clear that some of these shells are going to Ukraine. No news,” he pointed out.

North Korea has delivered by sea 6,700 containers that could contain 3 million 152 mm. the projectile, Bloomberg reported at the same time based on data from South Korea’s intelligence.

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2024-02-29 00:29:17


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GERB will withdraw its support for the draft Law on Energy from Renewable Sources in Maritime Spaces, which has caused strong and diverse opposition. This was announced by party leader Boyko Borisov. The project envisages the construction of wind turbine parks in the Bulgarian waters of the Black Sea – an idea that was unanimously opposed by the fishing industry, the hotel and restaurant industry, and strong reservations were expressed by all possible state institutions.

The project was actually submitted by MPs from four parliamentary groups, among whom were Ivaylo Mirchev (PP-DB), Delyan Dobrev (GERB-SDS), Ramadan Atalai (DPS) and Grozdan Karadjov (ITN). It passed the first reading through the plenary hall, where it received the approval of the ruling majority. The backlash against him then grew even more violent, with protests even threatened. Supporters of the initiative failed in their attempt to convince the public and interest groups that offshore wind turbines were a good thing – in early February this year. a round table was held in the parliament, organized by “Yes, Bulgaria” (one of the parties in the PP-DB, to which Ivaylo Mirchev belongs, considered the leading proponent of the project – note), which became an arena of terrible discord. However, the urban right continued to defend the initiative.

Today Borisov met in Varna with representatives of restaurateurs and hoteliers. These are industries that his party has traditionally supported, such as firmly supporting the retention of the 9 percent VAT rate for establishments. They announced to him that they support the implementation of “green” energy capacities, but categorically reject the idea of ​​offshore wind farms. The head of the restaurant association, Richard Alibegov, complained to him that Mirchev ran away from the round table where they were supposed to discuss the case.

Borisov authoritatively spoke to his audience about energy – about the Batashka hydroelectric road, about the Chaira Pavement Plant, about the future new reactors of the Kozloduy NPP. He explained that he was not well acquainted with the bill until recently. “In the so-called assembly, we support each other, and that is why we supported these fins in the first reading, because, at first glance, if they are 20 km inside the sea, they cannot be seen, they cannot be heard. When I got to know in detail about how much power it’s a question, and at the same time putting entire sectors at risk is not worth it at all,” stated the leader of GERB. Without its parliamentary group, the bill has no chance of passing through the plenary chamber for a second reading.

Then he defended today’s decision of his party to vote in the parliament to select the company “Hyundai” as the only potential builder of the new nuclear reactors. “The builder is a state within the state – a huge company where there can be no corruption. That’s why we stuck it in a decision of the parliament, to be sure,” explained Borisov. After that, he recounted the accusations of the deputies of GERB-SDS and DPS to PP-DB, that the right-wingers appointed a State Security agent in the management of the company that deals with the new nuclear facilities. Here it becomes clear that, in fact, the withdrawn support for wind turbines is not only a bow to hoteliers and restaurateurs, but also a punishment for the right, with whom it is impossible to understand the distribution of power.

POPULAR UNREST

Those present were excited about the topic, which Borisov wanted to finish quickly. One of the fishermen explained to him at length about the problems that generators create for fishing. Another guest reprimanded Borissov for continuing to support PP-DB, which proposed the bill in question. “This is already politics. It’s not your job. It’s my job to come and say that there will be no fins in the sea,” snapped the Gerber leader.

It turned out that among those present there were people of “Vazrazhdane” who made a noise, the others present also shouted at each other. “69 votes will not vote for this law. I promise you that,” Borisov said soothingly to someone in the audience. Another complains to him about the situation in Valchi Dol. The leader of GERB asked him which party the mayor was from and, realizing that he was non-partisan, exclaimed: “Well, why did you choose non-party, so you’re asking me! Let’s be serious!”

This caused an exchange of lines with the audience, from which nothing could be understood, except that GERB would no longer support the bill. The last thing heard from the live broadcast of the meeting was Borisov, who addressed someone in the audience with the words “Great haircut”.

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2024-02-25 00:38:38


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