The EC will propose to the Council of the EU and the European Parliament to approve additional aid in the amount of EUR 185mn for the closure of units in the nuclear plant in Kozloduy in the period 2014-2020, the economy ministry informs on its website. The financing is part of the EUR 500mn aid, which is to be disbursed to Bulgaria, Lithuania (EUR 210mn) and Slovakia (EUR 105mn), and is part of the budget of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The funds may be used for the decommissioning of nuclear units only. The EC has allocated EUR 2.8bn for the decommissioning of units in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia, of which Bulgaria has received EUR 550mn and additional EUR 300mn until 2013. We remind that the power plant in Kozloduy closed four 440 MW generators, two of which in early 2003 and two in the last day of 2006. At present it operates only two generators of 1,000MW capacity each. The programme period for Bulgaria expires in 2020.