The gaps of renewable energy legislation in Bulgaria

Abstract

Nowadays when the climate changes are of a worldwide vital importance, the European Union is on the way to trach the 2020 targets for smart and sustainable development. The set in 2007 targets are on the way to be even exceeded till the end of 2020 when EU is expecting to report at least a 20% greenhouse emission reduction from their levels in 1990, 20 % gross final energy consumption by renewable energy sources and 20% energy efficiency improvement. That satisfactory result isn’t enough to reflect the climate changes with the speed of their consequences. Namely, because of this the EU has put in place a legislation frames to achieve new climate and energy targets up to 2030. While the EU is working on fulfilling a decarbonisation strategy and insuring a legislative framework via Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources for all EU member states, Bulgarian parliament transposed the Directive into a Law for energy from renewable sources which from 2011 after its’ first acceptance till 2019 was changes 18 times, 4 of which in only 1 year (2013). This paper underlines some of the legislative gaps between the Directive 2009/28/EC and the Bulgarian legislation, the contraries between the EU and Bulgarian kind of fulfilment of a main target to stimulate the investments in renewable energy and on the other side the contraries in the internal Bulgarian regulation papers which negatively reflect the investment intends in the country.