Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Bulgaria on cooperation in the sphere of environmental protection.

The cooperation shall be carried out in the following fields: (a) state management of natural resources; (b) industrial ecology and resource saving; (c) environmental monitoring; (d) collection, sterilization, storage, disposal of industrial, agricultural, domestic and other waste; (e) control over transboundary movement of toxic waste; (f) environmental standardization and certification; (g) protection of surface water and groundwater; (h) prevention of the pollution of the Black Sea; (i) protection, reproduction and extension of forests; (j) sustainable use of biological diversity; (k) conservation of biological diversity of the Black Sea; (l) rehabilitation of polluted areas; (m) early warning system regarding transboundary pollution of the territory of one of the Parties; (n) environmental education (art. 2). Cooperation shall be carried out in the following forms: (a) joint programmes, projects and arrangements; (b) bilateral conferences, symposia, seminars and consultations; (c) joint working groups; (d) exchange of experts; (e) implementation of the concluded contracts (art. 3).