Annual Report for the Public Administration 2004

field of food safety by preparing the proposals forwarded by the Ministry to be discussed by the
National council for food safety. The recruitment of experts in the Directorate is in progress.
For the implementation of Regulations 2081/1992 and 2082/1992 and in accordance with a
commitment undertaken with the document CONF-BG 56/02 in Chapter 7 “Agriculture” for the
establishment of an authority for registration and control of geographic designations and foods with
traditionally specific character under the Directorate “Integration policy” of the Ministry for
Agriculture and Forests a special unit has been established for registration and control of
agricultural products and foods with appellations of origin and traditionally specific character. A
competition procedure has been organized for the selection of the personnel and the respective
experts have been employed from the 1 st August 2004.
In relation with the implementation of Regulation 1788/2003 and with a commitment
undertaken in the additional information to the negotiation position (CONF-BG 56/02) in Chapter 7
“Agriculture” until the end of 2004 to be established a register for the buyers of cow milk (stations
for milk processing and collection) to Directorate “Cattle breeding” of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forests a new department has been established “Monitoring of the production of cow milk and
realization of the milk quotas” in which a register is kept for the milk processors and milk collectors.
In relation with the realization of a commitment undertaken with the document CONF-BG 56/02 in
the same directorate there is established another new department “Qualification and classification
of meat” which controls the respecting of the rules for qualification and classification of clinic
carcasses of swine, cattle and small farm animals and participates in arbitration procedures for the
settlement of disputes for qualification and classification of clinic carcasses, etc.
In view of the application of Framework Directive 70/156 and 56 component directives and
Framework Directive 2002/24 and 13 component directives amendments were made in the Rules of
procedure of the Executive agency “Automobile administration” (State gazette, Nr. 53/2004)
according to which a new Directorate “Road vehicles” is established with staff of 16 employees,
which will work on issues, related to type approval of vehicles and trailers for them.
For the application of Framework Directive 74/150/EEC and 23 specific directives to it from
1 st May 2004 a new department “Type approval, market control and information services” within
Directorate “Legal, information, administrative and financial service” has been established by
amendments made in the Rules of procedure of the Control-Technical Inspection. Work is carried
out for the strengthening of the administrative capacity through training of the employees in relation
to the basic principles for the type approval of the new wheel tractors, systems and components for
them and the launching of a Phare project BG020502.11 “Strengthening of the administrative
capacity of the Control-Technical Inspection - Introduction of a system for market control for type
approval of new wheel tractors”.
In implementation of the requirements of Directive 94/56 for the establishment of an
independent investigation authority for analysis of the incidents and accidents in the field of the air
transport, which have been transposed in the Law for the amendment and supplement of the Law
for the civil navigation (State gazette, Nr. 52/2004) within the Ministry of Transport and
Communications a specialized unit “Investigation of the aviation accidents and serious incidents “ is
already functioning.
Within General Directorate “Civil air transport aviation” two new directorates have been
established through restructuring, i.e. “Aviation safety” which will perform the actions necessary for
the grant of licenses, permissions, certificates, testimonials and approvals and will execute control
on the civil navigation and the navigation facilities and Directorate “Airport airnavigation provision,
international and economic regulation” which will control the persons and the legal entities in
relation with the safety and the economic aspects of the safety in the civil navigation, and will
control the civil airports and the flying grounds, air navigation and other facilities related to the civil
navigation and will organize and realize the activities of the Directorate General “Civil air transport
aviation” related to the realization of the obligations stemming from the international contracts, to
which is the Republic of Bulgaria is a party, and its membership in the organizations in the field of
the civil navigation.
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