Order No. 769 regarding the collection of environmental charges

REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT ORDER No. 769 of 8 September 1993 Promulgated State Gazette No. 78/14.09.1993 Pursuant to 2 of the Concluding Provisions of Decree No. 171/1993 of the Council of Ministers on the Adoption of Charge Rates Collected under the Ministry of the Environment (The Official Gazette, issue 76 of 1993), I hereby establish the following collection procedure: 1. For services in connection with Art. 1, Art. 2, section 3,4,5 and 6 and Arts. 3 and 6 of the Rates, applications shall be filed with the Registration Department of the Ministry of the Environment or the Regional Environmental Inspectorates depending on where the respective document is issued or coordinated. 2. Applications shall be registered only if there is an attached document to certify that the charge under the respective section of the Rates has been paid. 3. The document on the paid charge shall include the Reference Number under which the application has been entered into the registration journal of the outgoing correspondence of the company or the applicant organization. 4. Import and export certificates under Art. 2, sections 1 and 2 of the Rates shall be examined at the Biological Diversity, Protected Territories and Forests Department only after a document is produced to certify that the charge has been paid under the respective section of the Rates. 5. Charges under the Rates shall be paid in any of the following ways: a) in cash at the cash desk of the Ministry of the Environment or the respective Regional Environmental Inspectorates, the State Savings Bank or a post office; or b) through a bank transfer. 6. When charges are paid at the cash desks of the Ministry of the Environment or the Regional Environmental Inspectorates, A/R receipts shall be filled in three copies, two of which shall be given to the person contributing the funds. 7. When the charges are paid through the State Savings Bank, a post office or a bank transfer, the funds shall be remitted to the National Environmental Protection Fund: 661-110-387-001-5, BNB-CU, Sofia. 8. The application under Art. 1, section 3 shall be submitted in accordance with the procedure and requirements of the Regulations of 1973 by the Ministry of Forests and Environmental Protection on the Issuance of Permits for Construction and Measures Which Might Have Adverse Effect on the Natural Waters Regime, the Permeability of River Beds, the Outflow and the Ice-Break (the State Gazette, No. 82 of 1973). 9. The application for a permit under Art. 1, section 7 shall be accompanied by information on: the Bulgarian and the Latin name of the plant or animal species; the quantity; the area where it will be collected, killed or caught; the ways and terms for doing so; the passport details of the persons performing the activity. In the cases of the establishment of artificial plantations, their location shall be indicated. The application shall be accompanied by a protocol from the respective Regional Environmental Protection Inspectorate to certify that appropriate conditions have been provided for raising the species. Such a protocol shall also be attached in the event of catch of animal species for zoos. 10. Import and export certificates under Art. 2, section 2 shall be supplemented by a document on the quota obtained for collection of species. Where the animal or plant species has been raised under artificial conditions, a protocol shall be attached from the respective Regional Environmental Inspectorate certifying the quantities of each species signed also by a representative of the respective municipality. 11. The application under Art. 2, section 3 shall contain information on: the names of the species in the Latin and Bulgarian language; the importing or exporting country; the name and precise address of the natural or legal person performing the import, export or re-export. Depending on the specific case, the application shall be supplemented by: a) an original SITEC form permit issued by the respective competent authority of the importing country (in the case of export from Bulgaria of species included in Annex 1 of the Washington Convention); b) an original SITEC permit issued by the competent authority of the exporting country countersigned by the Bulgarian customs authorities (in the case of re-export of species included in Annex 1 of the Washington Convention); c) information about the name and the principal office of the competent authorities of the exporting country issuing the SITEC certificate (in the case of import to Bulgaria of species included in Annex 1 of the Washington Convention). 12. The application (the letter with request for co-ordination) under Art. 3, section 1 shall be supplemented by: a) the documents in accordance with the provisions of Art. 10, para 3 of the Regulations on the Enforcement of the Cultivated Land and Pastures Protection Act; b) a preliminary report on the environmental impact assessment and the decision thereon by the respective Regional Environmental Inspectorate. 13. The application for issuing a document for the entitlement to customs privileges under Art. 6 of the Rates shall be submitted by the final user of the imported goods and shall be supplemented by: a) specification of the goods: copy of the original and Bulgarian language translation; b) description of the specific purpose of the imported goods, their positions and the customs rates (in percentage) in the Customs Tariff, the value and the importing country; c) for new projects or projects under reconstruction, expansion or updating also a copy of the resolution on the environmental impact assessment and the waste waters disposal permit. 14. The applications for exemption from turnover tax of the goods manufactured from waste materials and the services eliminating damages caused to the environment included on Lists Nos. 1 and 2 of Letter No. GDU-15 dated 15 September 1991 of the Ministry of Finance shall be filed with the respective Regional Environmental Inspectorate. Minister: V. Bossevsky List No. 1 of waste materials neither utilized or recycled, dangerous and polluting the environment 1. Heavy metal containing slimes from electrolytic plating or other surface finishing processing of metal products. 2. Ash and cinder from thermal power plants. 3. Scrap and rejects from construction, ceramic and porcelain/faience products. 4. Slurry from ore and coal dressing. 5. Phospho-gypsum. 6. Metallurgical slags. 7. Burnt pyrite. 8. Lignin from fodder yeast production. 9. Alcohol destillation slurry. 10. Sugar refinery saturation slush. 11. Hide scrap from tanneries. 12. Animal carcasses and impounded flesh. 13. Plastic wastes. 14. Rubber wastes and used automotive vehicle tires. 15. Oil sludges. 16. Used dry cells. List No. 2 For Services Rendered for the Elimination of Damages Inflicted to the Environment and Restoration of its Parameters to Normal Levels in Regions Evaluated by Experts as Dangerous with Respect to the Ecology A. Types and character of the services 1. Removal or/and neutralization of the pollution of water flows and basins (rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and the Black Sea) by oil and oil products. 2. Removal of the pollution by construction, household and other wastes and restoration of the land lot to normal parameters. 3. Recultivation of waste dump-yards and land lots with damaged soil crust. 4. Improvement of the plant coverage. 5. Amelioration of soil and improvement of land fertility. Note: The services mentioned are exempt of taxation according to the Turnover Tax Excises only in case when they are carried out by persons who are not guilty for causing the pollution. B. Regions evaluated by experts as being ecologically polluted 1. Sofia - Kremikovtsi 2. Pernik - Temelkovo 3. Rousse 4. Dimitrovgrad 5. Plovdiv - Assenovgrad 6. Varna-Devnya 7. Srednogorie 8. Elisseyna 9. Vratsa 10. Kurdjali 11. Bourgas-Kameno 12. Maritsa-East (Galubovo, Radnevo, and other settlements) 13. Razlog 14. Pleven 15. Vidin 16. Nikopol 17. Silistra 18. 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