site.btaInterior Minister Demerdzhiev: Kapitan Andreevo Border Checkpoint Functions Normally

Continue the Change will submit an alert at the State Agency for National Security (SANS) in relation to a possible criminal act against Bulgaria’s national security, the party’s press centre reported Sunday. The crime is related to established

Kapikule-Kapitan Andreevo on the border with Bulgaria was Turkey's busiest border crossing for passenger traffic in the first half of 2022. During that period, some 1.226 million vehicles passed through that checkpoint, the Anadolu Agency reported, quoting data from the Turkish Ministry of Trade.

Eurolab 2011's functions as a phytosanitary control services provider at the Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint on the border with Turkey were restored by the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC). The reason was unlawful actions taken by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA), the court reported on Tuesday.

European Commission auditors, accompanied by Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) Director Hristo Daskalov, will be at the Kapitan Andreevo Checkpoint on Bulgaria's border with Turkey on Thursday to inspect the phyto-sanitary control there, Daskalov said in an interview on Bulgarian National Radio Thursday.

Deputy Agriculture Minister Ivan Hristanov has been assigned personal security detail after he received life threats following a row over the expulsion of a company that for ten years had a contract for lab tests at a busy checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. That transpired Tuesday when Prime Minister Kiril Petkov met with farmers in Sadovo, southern Bulgaria, where crops were severely damaged or destroyed by a hailstorm in late May.