The cabinet discusses the option of the state taking over the management of buffer parking lots along the borders

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. The aim is to take urgent measures to relieve traffic, to reduce the waiting time as much as possible, to ensure equality of freight vehicles and predictability in the process of their processing. Within the framework of the working group, the possibilities will be considered for the state to fully take over the management of the buffer parking lots, which as adjacent infrastructure are also related to border control. This was announced by the press center of the Council of Ministers.
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. The NRA did not find any violations. 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 subject under the line of the Commission for the Protection of Competition, which in March of this year self-referred to the existence of violations of antitrust legislation in connection with the management of the buffer parking, located in the immediate vicinity of the border crossing “ Danube bridge“.
The working group will be led by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Ludmila Petkova and will be attended by the Ministers of Regional Development and Public Works Violeta Koritarova, of Transport and Communications Krasimira Stoyanova, of Agriculture and Food Georgi Takhov, the executive directors of the National Revenue Agency Rumen Specov, of the “Customs” Agency Georgi Dimov and the Main Directorate "Border Police" to the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Zlatanov, and Dr. Svetlozar Patarinski – executive director of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency.