Bulgaria to Revise Road Traffic Act in September

The Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov announced Friday that the Road Traffic Act will be amended in September. Photo by BGNES

Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has announced that the amendments to the Road Traffic Act will be ready around September.

“We have used mostly the good practices in the EU,” Tsvetanov said Friday in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio.

He added that the ministry has uploaded an initial version of the amendments on its official website, in order to be seen and discussed.

“You can see the results. People know that when they travel through a European country, they become very disciplined. But when they are in Bulgaria, they do not follow the rules and the victims are a lot,” Tsvetanov said.

According to him, 372 people have died on the road since the beginning of the year. The minister also explained that the amendments do not aim at filling a gap in the state budget, but would rather be invested in a special fund.

“Violators will pay and the money will go for improving the infrastructure and the technical resources. We will also limit the opportunity for police officers to make deals with the violators,” he said.

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