Environmental policy and administrative management

Soil is subject to a series of degradation processes or threats. These include erosion, decline in organic matter, local and diffuse contamination, sealing, compaction, decline in biodiversity, salinisation, floods and landslides. A combination of some of these threats can ultimately lead arid or sub-arid climatic conditions to desertification. (COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS. Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection [SEC(2006)620] [SEC(2006)1165] Problem with contaminated soil is among the most important cases in all countries, as Bulgaria. The affect of pollution is direct for humans or intermediate by soil- plant and other steps of the trophy chain. The main goal of the projects is to inform the society for the specific characters impact of the inorganic pollutants (heavy metals and metalloids) on the environment and decreasing of their negative influence by alternative systems of land use in polluted agricultural lands for prevention the processes of erosion and heavy metal accumulation for health risk assessment. Another aim is preservation and development of the economic beneficiary productions in the region of the Kuklen municipality. The project will be executed in the Central South Bulgaria, Plovdiv District, around the non-ferrous plant- KCM-AD. The territories of the villages Kuklen, Dolni I Gorni Voden, Krumovo and the town of Assenovgrad will be included. The conception stage includes: Data with local leaders, farmers and society for consensus for project development. Quality/quantity assessment of the pilot areas- Proposed areas and engagement of the local authorities and farmers. Evaluation of risks for goal achievement. Overcoming of the traditional land use stereotype. Milestones of investigation are to understand the behavior of pollutants depending of land use and make ready the farmers and co-operatives for alternative agriculture. Planning project with no co-financing, according to the decision of the Bulgarian NSC.

Bulgaria