18 December 2013 г.

By decision no. 5372 of 5 August 2013 on administrative case no. 3404/2013 (in Bulgarian), the Administrative Court - Sofia City repealed a silent refusal by the director of State Fund Agriculture to provide information on the candidates trained in the Rural Development Programme in the period 10.05.2010 – 31.01.2013. More specifically, the information sought was on the cost of that training, a copy of the list of companies which provided consultations, the number of consultations and the amount paid for them. The court held that the director should have issued an explicit decision on the request, since under an order of the Minister of Agriculture and Foods of 2007, the State Fund Agriculture is the sole Paying agency in Bulgaria for the Rural Development Programme.