Bulgarian experts working with RIEW Veliko Turnovo on Strategic project „Joint Risk Monitoring during Emergencies in the Danube Area Border“, reference number № 2s-2.2-1, MIS-ETC Code: 166 financed by the European Regional development fund and the State budgets of Republic of Bulgaria and Republic of Romania under the Crossborder Cooperation Programme Romania-Bulgaria 2007-2013 together with commissioners from the Romanian National Environmental Guard conducted a joint work visit to Natural park Zhelezni vrata (Iron Gates) in the period 10-12th July 2012 in order to get acquainted with the methodology for control of the protected territories in Romania and its application in the preservation of biodiversity.
Team of experts from RIEW Veliko Turnovo and Romanian National Environmental Guard conducted a work visit to the largest aluminium manufacturing industry in Romania ALRO and examined in details the technology for production and the methodology for control of sites that hold complex permits in compliance with European directives.
During a three-day visit to the city of Constanza in Romania experts from Regional Inspectorate for Environment and Waters (RIOSV)-Veliko Turnovo and National Environmental Guard of Romania discussed the application of the modern approach to the control of large industrial enterprises in compliance with the directives in the field of control and prevention of pollution. The joint inspection conducted of Rompetrol oil company as a site holding complex permit added practical value to the outcome from the programme implemented. In the events that took place in the period from 25th to 27th April 2012 there participated a mixed Bulgarian-Romanian group of experts which included 23 representatives of the institutions partners in the strategic project „Joint Risk Monitoring during Emergencies in the Danube Area Border“, MIS-ETC Code: 166 financed under the Crossborder Cooperation Programme Romania-Bulgaria 2007-2013.
The long-standing initiative and undertaking to develop and implement the strategic project “Joint risk monitoring during emergencies in the Danube area border” gathered at a workshop in Veliko Tarnovo 43 ecologists, inspectors and civil society activists from the public institutions National Environmental Protection Agency, Romania, Romanian Water, the Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water of Montana, Pleven, Varna and Veliko Tarnovo, Danube River Basin Directorate, Pleven and the NGOs Eurosociety Tarnovgrad, GeoEcoClub Academica and National Movement Ecoglasnost, Veliko Tarnovo, working in the Bulgarian part of Danube river basin – the river that connects us through the bridges of cooperation, solidarity and joint efforts for environmental protection and sustainable management of the natural and anthropogenic risks. For more than three years, during the first period of our countries’ membership in the European Union, we have been building a mutually beneficial partnership and we believe that this project, this seminar, this workshop, and the adopted joint procedure are our next steps in developing a working and lasting cooperation.











