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Title: CHALLENGE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DO NOT SIGNIFICANTLY HARM PRINCIPLE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION FUNDED RAIL PROJECTS IN BULGARIA
CHALLENGE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DO NOT SIGNIFICANTLY HARM PRINCIPLE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION FUNDED RAIL PROJECTS IN BULGARIA

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Darina Nitova; Yasen Markov
10.5593/sgem2022/5.1/s23.095
10.5593/sgem2022/5.1
1314-2704
978-619-7603-46-0
English
22
5.1
•    Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE 
•    Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
Environmental Legislation, Multilateral Relations and Funding Opportunities
The European Green Deal has an overarching aim of making Europe climate neutral in 2050. The goal is to reduce EU's greenhouse gas emissions for 2030 to at least 50% and towards 55% compared with 1990 levels. Its goals extend to many different sectors, including construction, biodiversity, energy, transport and food and includes carbon tariffs for countries that don't curtail their greenhouse gas pollution at the same rate. On 18 June 2020, the Taxonomy Regulation for climate change mitigation and adaptation was published in the Official Journal. In December 2020 was adopted the new EU Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, whereas its sustainable mobility element envisages an irreversible shift to zero-emission mobility by making all transport modes more sustainable. In February 2021 the EC issued technical guidance on the application of “do no significant harm” under the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation, and in September 2021 an explanatory note on the application of the principle under Cohesion Policy. The Recovery and Resiliency Facility Plan of Republic of Bulgaria was approved in April 2022 and Transport Connectivity Programme should be approved by the end of 2022 as well. This article discusses the challenges for the implementation of the EU guidance documents for the case of the EU co-funded rail sector projects in Bulgaria. In particular the identified cohesion policy projects are discussed and a particular project is analyzed. As a result some challenges and conclusions are formulated.
[1] European Union Regulation 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021 establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility
[2] European Commission, Brussels, 28.3.2011COM(2011) 144 final, WHITE PAPER Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system
[3] Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of The European Parliament and of The Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/208
[4] Commission Notice Technical guidance on the application of ‘do no significant harm’ under the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation (2021/C 58/01)
[5] National plan for recovery and resilience, last accessed on 10th June 2002 at https://nextgeneration.bg/14
[6] EGESIF_21-0025-00 27/09/2021 EC, Commission explanatory note, Application of the “Do Not Significant Harm” principle under Cohesion Policy
[7] REGULATION (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of The Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, ….(CPR)
[8] Latest publicly available draft of Transport Connectivity Programme, available at https://www.eufunds.bg/en/node/8980, last accessed on 30th May 2022
[9] Decision of the Minister of Environment and Water from 26th July 2021, available at https://www.eufunds.bg/bg/optti/node/8055, last accessed on 30th May 2022
[10] Brussels, 4.6.2021 C(2021) 2800 final COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... of 4.6.2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives and its Annex I
[11] Action plan from the National Strategy for Climate Adaptation, available at https://www.strategy.bg/StrategicDocuments/View.aspx?lang=bg-BG&Id=1294
[12] Preservation of Environment Act, promulgated in State Gazette № 91 from 25th September 2002, last amended by SG № 21 on 12 march 2021
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Proceedings of 22nd International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2022
22nd International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2022, 04 - 10 July, 2022
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SWS Scholarly Society; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci and Arts; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; European Acad Sci, Arts and Letters; Acad Fine Arts Zagreb Croatia; Croatian Acad Sci and Arts; Acad Sci Moldova; Montenegrin Acad Sci and Arts; Georgian Acad Sci; Acad Fine Arts and Design Bratislava; Turkish Acad Sci.
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