A New Slap for "Petkov" Government: Court Has Canceled Sandov's Decision for "Struma" Highway Suspension
Two different panels of the Supreme Administrative Court have cancelled the decisions of the eco-minister from the " Petkov " cabinet - Borislav Sandov, with which he stopped the EIA of the future " Struma " highway through the Kresnen Gorge and terminated amendments to the Detailed Development Plan for the highway route.
This way, the magistrates accepted the appeal of the road agency, Trud writes. According to the magistrates, " ending the assessment procedure for compatibility due to a detected lack of analysis of the provided mitigating measures against the specific nature protection goals, the minister has acted against the principle of predictability which implies consistency and consistency'.
Sandov did not send instructions to the road agency to carry out an analysis on basis of the set nature protection goals, but instead hastened and terminated the procedure, according to the court opinion.
The Supreme Court returns the files on the two cases to the current Minister of the Environment environment and waters Rositsa Karamfilova to continue the evaluation procedures of compatibility as directed by the court.
