Ministry of Environment and
Water
State of the Environment Bulgaria 2003
Public Access to Information and Public Participation
Transparency and access to environmental information in Bulgaria are provided through the Internet sites of the governmental institutions, their information centres, the bulletins, reports and other publications which they release. An ever larger part of environmental information tends to be presented electronically, and this is a priority task of the Ministry of Environment and Water (MoEW).
C. Information on disasters and accidents
D. Environment-related laws and regulations at all levels
E. International treaties, conventions, and agreements on the environment
F. Environment-related policies, programmes and plans
Public Participation in Environmental Decision - Making
The Ministry of Environment and Water and the entire national administration discharging duties in the environmental protection sphere could hardly implement the national environmental policy without public support.
The MoEW is interested in the development of a strong non-governmental sector to cooperate with, as well as in building partnerships at the local, regional, national and international level between NGOs, the business community and the governmental institutions. Only a strong non-governmental sector is in a position to be a partner and to provide effective checks and balances to the Government in a sensitive sector such as the environment.
In this connection, the Government Programme for the sector clearly sums up that all tasks set in the Programme "will be implemented in a process of sustained dialogue and consultation with the public and through broad-based enlistment of non-governmental organizations in the implementation of the measures, especially in biodiversity and improvement of settlement sanitation."
Last update on March 2003