Water Resilience

• A pre-defined project on acquiring and making operational a research vessel with the aim of carrying out scientific research and environmental monitoring of the Black Sea shall be developed in the Concept Note. The grant amount for the research vessel shall be identified in the Programme Agreement. The research vessel shall be owned and operated by the competent Bulgarian public authorities. The pre-defined project shall be implemented with the Norwegian Institute for Marine Research (IMR) as a donor project partner. Dedicated resources shall be allocated to design, manage, and closely monitor the implementation of the project at project and programme level. Milestones shall be defined in the Concept Note and set in the Programme Agreement to monitor the progress of the project and to allow for timely implementation of alternative measures, primarily within the programme, if the milestones are not met.
• A pre-defined project with the OECD with a grant from the programme of at least €1.6 million that contributes to the area of support “green governance” shall be developed in the Concept Note.
• The possibility of predefining a project on diffuse pollution of inland waters in collaboration with a donor project partner shall be explored in the Concept Note.
• The possibility of predefining a project on diffuse pollution of inland waters in collaboration with a Norwegian donor project partner shall be explored in the Concept Note.
• The programme aims to contribute to the areas of support: “air, water and soil pollution”, “climate change adaptation”, “biodiversity and ecosystems”, “circular economy” and “green governance”.

No projects have been signed under this programme. That is a real state rather than a gap in the data: bilateral funds and newly agreed programmes both sit here.