Bulgarian Institute of Meterology Stops the Weather Forecasts on its Website

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology has stopped publishing weather forecasts on its website, Krassimir Stoev told BNR, adding that it will most likely stop submitting forecasts to the media. He did not specify when this will happen.

Thus, the NIMH declares its readiness to protest the removal of the Institute from the Ministry of Education and Science and its transfer to the Ministry of Environment and Water.

This move - set first in the transitional and final provisions of the draft law on the budget for 2022, and subsequently removed from there and transferred as a text in the Water Act - was not discussed by the Minister of Education Acad. Nikolay Denkov with the management of the institute, claims Stoev, who finds this unacceptable.

"There was no meeting with the Minister of Education. I dare say that communication has been disrupted. One institution cannot be transferred from one ministry to another without consulting the employees of the Institute (...). I think that the management of the institute has met with minister Sandov, but not with Acad. Denkov," Stoev said.

He described the transfer of the NIMH from the Ministry of Education and Science to the Ministry of Environment and Water through the Water Act as "very strange". According to him, the initial application to make a structural change without affecting the work of the institute does not correspond to reality at the moment. The first direct consequence of the actions of the Minister of Education will be that we will not have a delegated budget. "In the Water Act, this point - for our right to have a delegated budget - has been directly deleted," the meteorologist said.

Lena Borislavova, a cabinet spokeswoman, disagrees....