2024-09-09 14:39:21
Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev created a working group with the task of proposing a permanent solution to the problem of buffer parking for heavy goods vehicles at border checkpoints, reports the Council of Ministers.
The aim is to take urgent measures to ease the traffic, to reduce the waiting time as much as possible, to ensure equality of cargo vehicles and predictability in the process of their processing. Within the framework of the working group, the possibilities for the state to fully take over the management of the buffer parking lots, which as adjacent infrastructure are also related to border control, will be considered.
By the end of September, the working group will provide the results of its activities and the performed inspections. They started already on Thursday by order of the Prime Minister. NRA officials checked the buffer parking lots for heavy goods vehicles located in front of the Lesovo, Kapitan Andreevo, Ruse and Vidin border checkpoints.
No violations were detected by the NRA. The results of the DANS inspection, which was also ordered by the Prime Minister, are about to become clear. The working group will also monitor the development of the topic in line with the Commission for the Protection of Competition, which in March of this year self-referred to the presence of violations of antitrust legislation in connection with the management of the buffer parking lot, located in the immediate vicinity of the “Danube” checkpoint bridge”.
The working group will be led by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Lyudmila Petkova and will be attended by the Ministers of Regional Development and Public Works Violeta Koritarova, Ministers of Transport and Communications Krasimira Stoyanova, Ministers of Agriculture and Food Georgi Takhov, Executive Directors of the National Revenue Agency Rumen Spetsov, of the “Customs” Agency Georgi Dimov and of the Main Directorate “Border Police” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Zlatanov, and Dr. Svetlozar Patarinski – executive director of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency.
Last week, Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev ordered the NRA and DANS to carry out inspections of the buffer parking lots, after Turkish and Greek carriers threatened to bypass Bulgaria because of the long wait in our country.
Deputy Minister of Transport Dimitar Nedyalkov informed the Prime Minister that the queues on the Danube Bridge near Ruse have decreased after the introduction of an application that gives the number of the truck and calls it to pass through the checkpoint.