The region: infrastructure, administration, utilities

The regional utility ViK Burgas publishes, village by village, where water supply in the Pomorie district is restricted. For the village of Kosicheno it lists a daily 15-hour rationing from 18:00 to 09:00. The page also carries announced interruptions in the town of Pomorie itself, most recently on Friday 28 August in the area of the summer cinema because of a fault. Anyone viewing a property in the coastal hinterland should open this page before the preliminary contract, search for the place name and take the result into the negotiation in writing. A supply regime is no reason to walk away, but it belongs in the price and not in the first summer week after moving in.

The Municipality of Pomorie announces that the Director of RIOSV Burgas has issued decision No. BS-3-5/2026 under the environmental impact assessment procedure. It concerns the investment proposal for construction of a photovoltaic power plant on the plots with identifiers 57790.4.75 and 57790.4.76 under the cadastral map of the village of Poroy, locality „Chernitsata“, Municipality of Pomorie, together with an amendment of the PUP-PZ development plan for a photovoltaic plant for generation and storage of electricity on those plots; the developer is „EYPEYS“ OOD. The decision is published at www.riosvbs.com under Preventive Activity/EIA/EIA Decisions.

Pomorie municipality has published eight monthly reports: on cash budget execution, on accounts for third party funds, on funds from other international programmes, plus three reports on EU funds (cohesion and structural funds via the National Fund, the paying agency of the State Fund Agriculture, and other EU funds). A statement of overdue receivables and liabilities and an explanatory note complete the set. The notice is by Sofia Andreeva, dated 11 September 2026, and points to the municipality's Viber channel for further news.

Bulgaria and Türkiye want to speed up construction of a second border crossing at Kapitan Andreevo. The new point will be built north of the existing crossing and is intended solely for heavy goods traffic; its proximity to existing infrastructure is meant to keep building costs down. Both sides declared themselves ready to sign the agreement within days and are setting up a joint expert commission for the technical specification. Kapitan Andreevo is the busiest land border in the EU. Upgrade and reconstruction work is running in parallel at the Lesovo and Malko Tarnovo crossings, the latter being the closest crossing to the coast from Burgas.

The Municipality of Pomorie has invited representatives of the tourism association and the local trade to an extended session of the advisory council on tourism on Friday, 18 September 2026 at 17:30 in the municipal art gallery Dechko Stoev. Two items are on the agenda: the results of the 2026 summer season and how Pomorie will present itself as a destination at the Eurovision showcase in 2027. The invitation is signed by Mayor Ivan Alexiev. It does not yet give season figures; these will be presented at the session.

The village administration building in Lozenets is back in operation after a full refurbishment. The interior, the facade and the equipment for staff and citizen services have been renewed. The handover took place on 11 September 2026 in the presence of Mayor Marin Kirov and other officials. The municipality does not state costs, construction time or the funding source in its notice. Lozenets is the second largest settlement of the municipality after Tsarevo and the point of contact for address registration, property tax and the waste fee for owners based there.

The municipality of Tsarevo is putting new street sweepers into service in Lozenets, Tsarevo and Ahtopol. They are financed from an EU project and from funds returned out of the charges paid to the regional environmental inspectorate. Further equipment is to follow step by step for the remaining settlements of the municipality, without a date being given. The municipality does not state the number of machines or their purchase cost in its notice of 10 September 2026.

Operator Fraport Twin Star reports more than three million passengers handled at Burgas and Varna combined since the start of 2026, even though Burgas only resumed flights in May: the runway was rehabilitated at a cost of over 60 million euro. Both airports record double-digit growth from Poland, Israel, Hungary, Slovakia, Belgium and France. Burgas added Rome to its network, and charter programmes from France are returning after a break of several years. Varna gained Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Gdansk and Paris, with Basel following from October. For the full year the operator expects more passengers than in 2025.

The municipality of Burgas has closed the section of Lyuben Karavelov Street between Maria Luisa Boulevard and Debelt Street, including the junction with Debelt Street. The closure began on Monday 31 August 2026 at 15:00 and is planned to last four months, that is until the end of December. The reason is repair and resurfacing work on the carriageway. The municipality points to a temporary traffic scheme in the affected area and advises using alternative routes without naming specific ones. It gives no figure for the cost.

Modernisation of the Plovdiv to Burgas railway has passed 80 per cent physical progress, Flagman reported on 10 September. The scheme runs to more than 373 million euros and is co-financed under the Transport Connectivity programme 2021 to 2027. So far 309 kilometres of track and 51 kilometres of overhead line have been renewed, 24 level crossings have been closed and replaced by bridges or underpasses, and the 744-metre tunnel near Chirpan is complete. Once finished, passenger trains are to run at 160 and freight trains at 120 kilometres per hour. A further 78 million euros in the same programme is earmarked for five new trainsets.

The draft budget of Burgas municipality for 2026 comes to 356,592,267 euros and was tabled on 10 September. Road infrastructure is allotted 9.1 million euros, street cleaning 20.5 million, street lighting 1.8 million and green spaces 3.3 million euros. The draft first passes through the standing committees and goes to a vote at the end of September. Its focus lies on educational buildings, energy refurbishment and healthcare.

Sozopol municipality published order number 8-Z-654 of 16 July 2026 on 10 September. It approves the detailed development plan for parcel 67800.44.48 in the Mapi locality and forms from it regulated plot VI-44.48 of 2,548 square metres, with a further 109 square metres passing into street land. The designated use is resort and complementary activities together with a substation. The plan is on display at the spatial planning directorate at Han Krum Square 2, with the notice posted from 10 to 23 September. The order may be appealed within fourteen days through the municipality to the administrative court.

TUI Nordic is bringing forward the start of its flight programme from Stockholm to Burgas and will operate an additional direct flight from Stockholm Arlanda on 10 May 2027. Burgas Airport announced the plan. The date falls before the main part of the Eurovision 2027 song contest programme, so Swedish travellers can stay in the country for the whole week. For the southern coast the earlier start means an extra way in from early May rather than only in high season.

On 9 September the Municipality of Nesebar announced that Order No 2940 of 3 September 2026 approved the amendment of the detailed development plan for regulated plot V-956 in block 56 of Obzor, cadastral identifier 53045.501.400. The zone changes from purely residential to mixed multifunctional use, and the designation from housing construction to car servicing, vehicle testing, shops and housing. The parameters move with it: permitted height falls from 14.00 to 12.00 metres over one to four storeys, the minimum green area from 40 to 30 per cent and the floor area ratio from 2.00 to 1.5, while built density stays at 50 per cent. The plan can be inspected at the spatial planning department in the Obzor town hall, 2 Ivan Vazov Street, room 8.

On 9 September the Municipality of Sozopol published a draft detailed development plan for the plot with identifier 67800.53.23 in the Mapi locality. It provides for a change of designation and the creation of two new regulated plots, numbered VI-53.267 and VIII-53.268, both for resort use and supporting activities. Protection zone B under the Black Sea Coast Act applies together with development zone Ok/12: height up to 10.00 metres, built density up to 30 per cent, floor area ratio up to 1.0 and a minimum of 50 per cent green space, half of which must be tree cover. A new cul-de-sac with a turning area of 12 by 8.87 metres is planned in addition. Objections may be lodged within 14 days of publication; the notice stays posted until 23 September 2026.

The municipality of Burgas has completed several education building projects for the 2026/27 school year. In the coastal district of Kraymorie a new building for the “Al. G. Kodzhakafaliyata“school offers eight classrooms, specialist rooms, a STEM centre, a gym, a swimming pool and medical and speech therapy rooms. “Vasil Aprilov“school has gained a new wing with 104 places and a lecture room for 116, and the “Alen Mak“kindergarten in Sarafovo an extension for two groups with 50 places for children aged three to seven. A branch of the “Nadezhda“kindergarten in the Pobeda district adds another 50 places, and the site for a new build in the Vetren district has already been designated.

The municipal council of Karnobat adopted the 2026 budget unanimously on 9 September: more than 34 million euros, rising above 35 million after the expected updates, and some 4.5 million more than in 2025. Local taxes and fees stay unchanged, although the municipality reports food prices up 15 per cent and fuel and electricity up 30 per cent. Some 170,000 euros are earmarked for running costs in the outlying settlements. Nearing completion are the “Golden Lake“park with a December 2026 deadline, the town square, the wastewater treatment plant, the water intakes and the servicing of the new residential areas.

The municipality of Burgas is a partner in ComActivate, a project funded under the LIFE programme. The project has produced a platform that shows, as a 3D model, the potential energy savings of multi-family residential buildings in the Vazrazhdane complex once energy efficiency measures are carried out. The platform is at an early stage of development; over the coming months it is expected to cover more complexes in Burgas and to refine the results for each individual building.

Tsarevo municipality reports 17,000 registered overnight stays for 6 September, in other words full houses at a point when the season on the southern coast used to be over. The fish festival drew 12,000 to 13,000 visitors over a weekend, and direct turnover for the businesses involved exceeded one million euros. The municipality is working to turn a peak season of six weeks into a year-round offer, using an events calendar, road works, parks and orderly traffic management. Lozenets, Ahtopol and Sinemorets report strong late-summer trade, along with families from the larger Bulgarian cities buying a second property there.

The Ministry of Regional Development publishes a weekly account of which settlements are under restricted water supply. The report of 8 September, covering 31 August to 7 September, lists 45 municipalities nationwide, three towns with 20,054 and 109 villages with 44,199 inhabitants, a total of 64,253 people affected. In the Burgas service area two villages with 368 inhabitants are recorded, and none of the coastal towns between Rezovo and Sveti Vlas appears on the list. The heaviest burden falls on the Kyustendil area with 17,712, Gabrovo with 10,297 and Veliko Tarnovo with 7,677 inhabitants.

Work has started on the underpass beneath “Prof. Yakim Yakimov“Boulevard, which links the Slaveykov housing complex with the fast-growing Madika district. The scope covers a new switch cabinet, complete rewiring, energy-saving LED lighting, video surveillance, replacement of the stone cladding and the flooring, and new metal railings. This underpass has 153,387.56 euros earmarked, and the municipality's two structures together 383,468.91 euros; the funds were approved in December 2025. The second underpass at Nikola Petkov Boulevard is to follow next.

Earth masses have slipped on the road to Brodilovo in Tsarevo municipality. On 8 September 2026 the municipality introduced temporary traffic management on the affected section so that the material can be removed, the carriageway cleaned and the section secured. The arrangement applies until the works are finished and traffic flows normally and safely again. Drivers are asked to observe the signs and follow instructions on site; the municipality answers questions on 0590 55010.

From 8 to 10 September 2026 the National Social Security Institute, together with Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund and Deutsche Rentenversicherung Mitteldeutschland, advises on insurance periods completed in both countries. Sessions run daily from 9:00 to 16:30 at the territorial office in Pleven, Ivan Mindilikov Square 8. The advice is free and given in Bulgarian or German; an appointment must be booked beforehand on 02/926 16 80 or 0882 187 680, or by message to ConsultDay@nssi.bg. Applicants should bring insurance records, certificates and diplomas, an identity document and birth certificates where periods of raising children are to be counted.

The Environment Programme 2021 to 2027 earmarks 362.52 million euros for improving air quality; 78.36 million euros, or 21.6 per cent, have been disbursed so far. Funding goes to 45 projects in 21 municipalities where exceedances of the daily or annual limit values for fine particulate matter were recorded between 2017 and 2021. So far 7,952 of 75,500 planned heating units have been replaced, mostly solid fuel stoves giving way to pellet burners, heat pumps and air conditioning units. An annual reduction of more than 2,100 tonnes of fine particulate matter is expected, alongside some 250 hectares of green infrastructure and low emission zones in Sofia and Plovdiv restricting high emission vehicles during the heating season. A Swiss-Bulgarian partnership with a budget of 15 million francs is renewing the national quality assurance system by the end of 2029, and a mobile application is to supply readings in real time.

On 2 and 3 September 2026 the municipality of Pomorie hosted a meeting of the Recircle Med project for the second time, a project supporting blue and circular economy in tourism. Partners from Italy, Greece, Malta, North Macedonia and Montenegro met at the Dechko Stoev Municipal Art Gallery, with the Greek University of Thessaly as lead partner. The topics were more efficient use of water and energy, waste reduction, sustainable mobility and turning natural and cultural assets into tourism experiences; the proposals will feed into a Blue Action Plan for the municipality.

According to the health ministry, patients in Bulgaria pay more than 40 per cent of health expenditure out of their own pocket, against a European average of 17 to 18 per cent. A system for assessing treatment quality is to be adopted by the end of 2026; it is being agreed with the medical profession and is meant to make weak facilities visible. Greater transparency about payments outside compulsory insurance has also been announced, so that an insured person can see what they are entitled to, in cooperation with the National Health Insurance Fund. On the same account, the first hundred days advanced investments under the recovery and resilience plan, accelerated the emergency medicine project and produced draft legislation on full traceability of medicinal products and on central procurement.

On 2 September the municipality of Nessebar published notice no. N2-UT-3095-001, a draft plan for quarter 1 in Obzor South. It changes the regulation lines of plots 53045.503.319, 53045.503.106, 53045.503.299, 53045.503.313, 53045.503.332, 53045.503.333, 53045.503.297, 53045.503.325 and 53045.503.320 as well as 53045.225.87 and 53045.225.91 in order to form a coastal alley and secure a continuous footpath up to the new concession boundary of the beach. The alley covers 5,743 square metres. The file is held at Obzor town hall, 2 Ivan Vazov Street, room 8.

The official public holidays are listed in article 154 of the Labour Code. Where a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a non-working day with the same legal status; the General Labour Inspectorate states this rule expressly. Work on an official holiday is paid at least at double rate, and for overtime the supplement doubles again. For buyers travelling in for an appointment this turns hope into planning. Checklist: enter the holidays of the travel month before booking the flight; allow for the shift rule when a holiday falls at the weekend; place appointments with migration, cadastre, notary and the Registry Agency on Tuesday to Thursday within a full working week; avoid the days immediately before and after a holiday, where the backlog is worked off; plan a spare day as a buffer in case a document has to be submitted later; couple the notary and registration appointments into the same block of the day; have the opening hours of the specific office confirmed by telephone beforehand.

The Municipality of Pomorie informs all interested natural and legal persons of a notification received through RIOSV Burgas for an investment proposal under Art. 4 para. 1 of the Ordinance on the conditions and procedure for carrying out environmental impact assessment. The proposal is the Black Sea Scientific, Educational and Nature Conservation Centre for the Marine Environment in Pomorie, located in plot UPI XXII, quarter 217 of the town development plan, land parcel with identifier 57491.508.249 in the cadastral map. The developer is PROPARTIS PS EOOD; the notice from the UTOOS department is dated 3 September 2026.

Burgas and Varna airports have reached Level 3, labelled Optimisation, in the Airport Carbon Accreditation run by the world airport body ACI. Operator Fraport Twin Star Airport Management announced this on 4 September 2026. Level 3 requires an airport to count the emissions of its on-site partners as well – airlines, ground handlers and state bodies – and not its own alone. The basis at both sites was new photovoltaic capacity, renewed infrastructure and energy-saving plant technology.