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Project Summary Project Description Application of Tools Opinion of Tools Decision making process Contact Details

Decision making process

Name of the case study
Construction of Municipal Waste Water Collector No 5, Samokov Municipality

Decision making process - stages

National level

Actors involved in decision-making process (national and municipal levels):
Ministry of Environment and Waters (Consultative Council), Municipality of Samokov, Samokovconsult Ltd. The procedure structures arguments for the National Fund for Environmental Protection (NFEP) in the decision-making process for granting municipal projects within the National Program.

Stages:
• Municipalities submit applications for financial support to a Consultative Council at the Ministry of Environment and Waters (MoEW) also comprising experts from the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works;
• The Consultative Council ranks the applications and makes the decision for providing grants;
• The Consultative Council proposes the grants to be included in the State Budget.

Municipal level

Stages:
• The municipal experts (Water And Sewage Department) with the assistance of Samokovconsult Ltd developed and proposed the collector construction projects to be approved by the Municipality;
• The Municipality made a proposal to the Municipal Council for approval;
• The Municipal Council approved the proposal (municipal level) and the Municipality submitted its grant application to the Consultative Counsel (national level).

Decision making process - levels

National level

The Consultative Council made a technical decision; the political decision was made by the Council of Ministers through the proposed state budget.

Municipal level

Consecutive technical (by municipal experts) and political (by the Municipal Council) steps were undertaken;

Decision making process - sources of information

National level & Municipal level

No information available

Decision making process - who are the decision makers

National level

The political decision makers are the Council of Ministers (national level) and Municipal Council (local level).

The technical decision makers are the Consultative Council (national level) and the Municipality of Samokov (local level).

Municipal level

The Municipal Council, the Municipality, municipal experts (water and sewage department)

Decision making process - who made the final decision for project implementation

National level

The final decision for application approval was made by the Consultative Council (expert decision), but it took effect after the approval of the State Budget (political decision).

Municipal level

The Municipal Council, political one


Name of tool
Procedure for Criteria Relative Weight Evaluation (Tool used at National Level)

Decision making process - tools in decision-making process
The tool was implemented at the initial stage of The National Program realisation by the Consultative Council before grant approval. The output of the tool is used as support for:
• including grants in the State Budget;
• decision making support for NFEP (when it is included as a financial donor);
• financing by EU programs.

In some cases the tool output demands additional expert evaluation. The main quantitative goal of the tool was the reduction of pollutants of the Iskar River. The benchmarks were defined by national Regulation No. 9 on the Quality of Water Intended for Drinking and Domestic Purposes.


Name of tool
Technical and Economic Report (TER) + Local Priority Criteria (LPC) (Municipal Level)

Decision making process - tools in decision-making process
The TER and the LPC were implemented by municipal experts (Water and Sewage Department) in the initial stage of project development. It was used for choosing between two options namely the construction of collectors No5 or No2 as funds were not available to construct both.
• Monitoring during operation of the UWWTP and the town collectors.

How did the tool output influence the process (added or skipped levels/stages in the existing decision-making process, etc.)? By successfully meeting the criteria of the National Program, TER and the municipal priority criteria present the basis for decision-making which concerns:
• municipal applications for financial support from the national or the NFEP budget;
• project propositions for EU financial support;
• management of the construction process;

The technical parameters included in TER served as benchmarks during the construction of the collectors and the whole town sewage system as it was developed in compliance with Bulgarian National Standard on waste water and sewage systems and the particular conditions in the town.


Decision making process - how was the information for the dmp disseminated

National level

a. Information was disseminated directly to the Municipalities and general public by mass media and by Internet in the site of the Ministry of Environment and Waters.

Municipal level

The information was disseminated directly by the Municipality. An announcement for the project grant was published in the local newspapers.

Decision making process - how was the public involved

National level &Municipal level

No information available

Decision making process - was there public discussion over the project

National level & Municipal level

No information available

What tools were used to assess sustainability?

Procedure for Criteria Relative Weight Evaluation (Tool used at National Level)

Technical and Economic Report (TER) + Local Priority Criteria (LPC) (Municipal Level)

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