The Executive Director of EA "Maritime Administration", Cap. Zhivko Petrov and the Director General of the Romanian Naval Authority, Mihai Andrei signed an Agreement on the inland waterway vessels inspections on the common Bulgarian-Romanian stretch of the Danube River. The event was held today in Ruse during a formal meeting between the two administrations.
The document is a result of the implementation of activities under the project „Development of common database and legal framework for ships inspections for the common Bulgarian-Romanian stretch of the Danube River with interface to the national River Information Service (RIS)” - DANRiSS, financed under the Program for cross-border cooperation INTERREG V-A Romania-Bulgaria 2014-2020.
The main objective of the project is to increase the level of coordination between the maritime administrations of both countries. It will also describe specific rules for shipping in the common Bulgarian-Romanian stretch of the Danube River, as well as a methodology for assessing the risk when implementing river supervision. As a result, the Bulgarian and Romanian maritime administrations will have software for an electronic database for carrying out inspections of vessels in the common stretch of Danube River.
Signing of the Agreement, Bulgaria fulfills the requirements laid down in Art. 17 of Directive 2006/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels and repealing Council Directive 82/714/EEC.
