RIEW Veliko Turnovo and the Romanian institutions National environmental Guard, National Environmental Agency as well as the General Inspectorate for Emergencies will discuss control and prevention of chemical hazards and environmental incidents and the means for limiting their consequences. Discussions and the check-up of an industrial site are all part of a joint inspection „Application of SEVESO II Directive related to control of risk in chemical hazards situations“, organised by RIEW which will take place in the village of Arbanassi in the period 25-27th June 2012. Work programme can be downloaded here.
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.
On 5th June 2012 there will be held an information day, a part of 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. There will be disseminated among parties involved as well as cross-border community an information report about project progress following it start-up on 22nd June 2011.The report is entitled “RIEW Veliko Turnovo builds capacity for reaction in emergencies with cross-border impact”.
On 15th May 2012 there will be held an information day, a part of 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.
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.
A joint procedure 01/12/2011 between RIEW Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, and the National Environmental Protection Agency of Romania for real-time communication during emergencies caused by accidental pollution in the Danube river basin with cross-border impacts will be officially signed on 27 March 2012 in Veliko Tarnovo. The procedure is developed within the project “Joint risk monitoring during emergencies in the Danube area border”, MIS-ETC Code: 166, funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the State Budget of the Republic of Bulgaria through the Romania – Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013.
