| News Title | Summary |
| New vignette charges | As of 1st January 2007 will be implemented a new vignette charges for motor vehicles with foreign registration using the Bulgarian road network for specified periods of time. The vignettes can be purchased at the border crossing points (for more details see www.aebtri.com - freight transport - fiscal charges).
The vignette consists of two parts. The first one - called a vignette sticker - should be stuck in a prominent place to the bottom right corner of the front window of the road vehicle and the second one is kept by the driver of the vehicle.
As the validity of the vignette expires the driver of the road vehicle is obliged to immediately
take off the vignette sticker from the window. The vignette charges, as well as the road sign, indicating that the using of the road is charged, are given below:
For detailed information download the file in PDF format. |
| Danube Bridge tolls | The tolls levied for using the bridge across the Danube between the towns of Rousse (Bulgaria) and Giurgiu (Romania) are as follows:
- freight vehicles with a load capacity of:
5 t or less - EUR 13.00
over 5t up to 16 t - EUR 30.00
more than 16 t - EUR 46.00
- trailers with a load capacity of:
up to 750 kg - EUR 7.00
over 750 kg - EUR 13.00
NB: Tolls are levied before crossing the bridge in the direction of Giurgiu; they are levied on all vehicles, regardless of their country of registration. |
| Permits | In accordance with traffic laws and the rules for their implementation, heavy and/or bulky convoys using the Bulgarian road network, having total mass over 45 tones or weight per axle, exceeding with more than 30% the allowable axle loading for the respective road category, as well as oversized vehicles with dimensions: width – over 3.30m, height – over 4.30m and length over 22m, must obtain a permit from National Road Infrastructure Fund.
The price of a permit for a vehicle exceeding the maximum permitted weights and dimensions is EUR 36. The sum, which must be paid for all foreign-registered vehicles, regardless of the country of registration, is payable on application for the authorisation. The administration managing the road issues the permit within 5 working days or gives a motivated
refusal. An additional charge is levied for rapid delivery of the permit: the supplement amounts to EUR 36 for delivery in three working days, and to EUR 72 in case of urgent elaboration of the document within one working day. |
| New charges for excess vehicle dimensions and weight | On 29 December were changed some of the charges in Tariff 12 for excess vehicle dimensions and weight. They are in force as from 1 January 2007 and are as follows:
For detailed information download the file in PDF format. |
| Driving restrictions - 2007 | I. Movement of vehicles with total laden weight over 10 t is prohibited along road I-5, section Tchernootchene – Kardjali. The traffic is diverted along to following routes:
• direction Haskovo – Kardjali: road I-5 – road III-505 – Manastir – road III-507 – Voyvodino – Most – Tchiflik – Kardjali;
• direction Assenovgrad – Kardjali: road II-58 – road I-5 direction Haskovo – road III-505 – Manastir – road III-507 – Voyvodino – Most – Tchiflik – Kardjali;
• direction Mineralni Bani – Kardjali: road III-506 – III-806 – road I-5 – road III-505 – Manastir – road III-507 – Voyvodino – Most – Tchiflik – Kardjali.
II.SUMMER RESTRICTION
During the summer period there is a prohibition on movement of trucks with a total laden weight of over 20 t in the period from 12h00 to 19h00 when temperatures exceed 35°.
III. RESTRICTIONS FOR OVERSIZED AND OVERLOADED VEHICLES:
Movement of oversized and overloaded vehicles is prohibited throughout the year in case of visibility under 50 m due to mist, heavy rain or snow, black ice, during the hours of darkness and at rush hours during the day except in cases of emergency or natural disaster.
IV. ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS
During the summer period from 1.7.2007 till 5.9.2007 all vehicles over 3.5 t, travelling from Sofia to Burgas and vice versa, have to use the following routes:
• direction Sofia - Burgas: “Trakia” motorway - road ІІ-66 - Stara Zagora bypass - road І-5 (Zmejovo - Iagoda - Tulovo) - road І-6– crossing “Petolychkata” - road ІІІ-707 (Straldzha – Vodenichane – Pyrvenec) - road ІІ-53 (Iambol – Sredec) - road ІІ-79 (Sredec – Burgas);
• for Lukoil rafinery - road ІІ-79 (Sredec – Konstantinovo) - road ІV-53904 (Konstantinovo – Trystikovo) - road ІІІ-7907 (Trystikovo – overpass Bratovo) - road ІІІ-7909 (overpass Bratovo - Bratovo)- road ІІІ-5392 - road ІІІ-5393;
• direction Burgas - Sofia diverting from roundabout at roads І-6 and І-9 (Metro store) – road ІІ-79 (direction Sredec) - road ІІ-53 - road ІІІ-707 (crossing “Petolychkata”) - road І-6 (Sliven – Kazanlyk) - direction Sofia;
• direction Burgas - Plovdiv diverting from roundabout at roads І-6 and І-9 (Metro store) – road ІІ-79 (direction Sredec) - road ІІ-53 - road ІІІ-707 (crossing “Petolychkata”) - road І-6 (Sliven – Kazanlyk) km 319+600 – road І-5 (Tulovo - Iagoda – Zmejovo) - Stara Zagora bypass - road ІІ-66 (connection with “Trakia” motorway) - “Trakia” motorway. |
| Bulgaria: Public holidays for the year 2007 | 1 January - New Year’s Day
3 March - National holiday
8 April - Easter (Orthodox)
9 April - Easter Monday
1 May - Labour Day
6 May - Day of Bulgarian Army
24 May - Day of Slavonic Alphabet
6 September - Union Day
22 September - Independence Day
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day
26 December - Christmas Day |