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The State Reserve and Wartime Stocks Department carried out 236 inspections in just 2 months to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Petroleum and Petroleum Products Reserves Act. The checks were made to specify the quantities in order to correctly determine the emergency stocks of petroleum and petroleum products that the country must maintain for the period 01.07.2024 - 30.06.2025. The…
The management of the State Reserve and Wartime Stocks Agency held a directorial council to discuss key issues related to the agency's activities. The Council was attended by the management of the State Reserve and War-Time Stocks Agency, the directors of the central directorates and the directors of all territorial directorates. Topics related to the budgetary provision of the Agency's activities…
State reserves consist of essential raw materials, materials, fuels, food products, medicines and hospital-household property, disinfectants, means for deratization and disinsection, protective clothing in case of containment and elimination of animal diseases and zoonoses and others, determined by a nomenclature list by the Council of Ministers or by law, intended to meet the needs of the national economy and population in a crisis situation, in the event of war, military or emergency situation.
State reserves are released in the following cases:
State reserves are released at the proposal of the chairman of the Agency with a decision of the Council of Ministers or an authorized body and with a subsequent order of the chairman of the Agency.
A “crisis situation” arises as a result of the action of destructive or aggressive forces during disasters, accidents, catastrophes, epidemics or other events.
In the event of a crisis situation or the declaration of a “state of emergency”, a central or local administration body may submit a request to the State Reserve Agency for the release of state reserves, listed by type and quantity.
In the section “Oil and Oil Products”
The State Reserve Agency maintains and stores registers of obligated persons under the Law on Oil and Oil Products Reserves for the respective periods and registers of warehouses for storing oil and oil products reserves, which you can find here
In the grain bases of the State Reserve Agency, in recent years mainly bread wheat, corresponding to group B2 according to BDS 602/1987, is accepted.
Each quantity is accepted after performing an incoming control by a laboratory at the grain bases with an automated sampler. The analysis includes moisture measurement, presence of impurities, a hectoliter mass of not less than 76 hl.mass/kg, a wet gluten yield of not less than 22%, as well as other indicators for compliance with BDS 602/1987.
In case of deviations from the indicators according to BDS 602/1987, the bread wheat is not accepted. At the entrance, the quantities are measured on an electronic scale, and the separation by warehouses is carried out through an automated system of conveyors, reducers, and elevators.
Each warehouse of the State Reserve Agency is equipped with a thermal control system showing the temperature of the wheat in real-time and an active ventilation system. This allows lowering the temperature in the grain bulk to prevent the development of undesirable processes related to the development of pests, increased moisture, and the appearance of mold, etc.
Periodically, samples are taken from the bread wheat for quality analysis and the presence/absence of pests is established. In the case of identified contamination, treatment is carried out by an authorized company.
The State Reserve Agency publishes information about all released reserves and stocks subject to sale in the section “Sales Bulletin” - sub-section “Commodity Exchanges”, where you can view all current sale announcements.
Purchase and sale contracts for goods are concluded through the mediation of the three licensed commodity exchanges - “Sofia Commodity Exchange” AD (SCE), “National Commodity Exchange” AD (NCE) and “Bulgarian Commodity Exchange” AD (BCE).
More information about the sale offers can be obtained by contacting the brokers representing the State Reserve Agency on the commodity exchanges.
In the section “Administrative Services” and sub-section “Questions and Answers”
