The country’s largest steel mill Kremikovtsi signed yesterday a partnership agreement with the Danish Grontmij Carl Bro, which will evaluate the environment investment programme of the steel producer and suggest options for external financing. The Danish consultant would team up with local experts for drafting the most important projects. Earlier this week, Kremikovtsi announced that it would invest EUR 312mn in environmental projects until 2011. As recalled, the ministry of environment has recently raised the monthly sanctions for Kremikovtsi following recent estimates that it is a much bigger polluter than all other industrial
enterprises in the region taken together. A month ago, the European Commission requested information from the environment ministry on pollution parameters related to Kremikovtsi and also assigned own experts to evaluate the progress achieved by the company in meeting investment commitments set under Bulgaria’s accession treaty.