The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry is demanding back, by letter, from the recipients, the overpayments from exchange deals of private for state-owned land over the 2007-2009 period.
Unlawful state aid for the beneficiaries has been ascertained in 103 out of the 132 swap contracts inspected – a total of 470 estates covering an area of over 2,200 hectares. The amount paid in excess is more than 40 million euro.
As far back as 2099 the European Commission declared the deals inadmissible under state aid rules, demanding that the sums paid in excess be paid back to the Bulgarian states and the deals – frozen by the first GERB party government.
On Saturday, minimum temperatures in the country will be between 5 and 10°C, around 5°C in Sofia. The morning will be sunny. In the afternoon it will be cloudy in the mountains, where rain and snow will fall, and sunny in the east. Maximum temperatures..
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The Bulgarian Parliament has finally postponed the liberalisation of the energy market for one year, starting from 1 July. The decision was taken with..
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