Directorate General QCFDH

Directorate General “Quality control of fuels for domestic heating” DG QCFDH

Contact person:
Ivaylo Yordanov, Director General
1797 Sofia, 13 Lachezar Stanchev St.,
Tel.: +359 878 749 929
Fax: +359 2 986 17 07
е-mail:

 Scope of activity:

The Directorate General “Quality control of fuels for domestic heating” is responsible for:

  • carrying out surveillance and control of solid fuels for which quality requirements are established;
  • undertaking actions for ascertaining the compliance of solid fuels with the quality requirements by means of:
    • checking the documents accompanying the solid fuels;
    • sampling solid fuels;
    • testing samples at the accredited laboratory and if necessary assigning the tests to external accredited laboratories;
    • carrying out expertise of test results and preparing expert conclusions and ascertainment protocols for compliance of solid fuels with the quality requirements;
    • organizing the tests of solid fuels’ arbitration samples in a third party accredited laboratory and preparing expertise for the compliance of fuels with the quality requirements;
  • carrying out control of the quality requirements, packaging and labelling of solid fuels for their placing and/or making available on the market and/or their distribution;
  • issuing mandatory prescriptions for imposition of compulsory administrative measures according to the order provide for in the Law on ambient clean air;
  • issuing revocation acts of solid fuels in favour of the state;
  • preparing and providing information for the solid fuels’ quality to the Ministry of Environment and Water for the purposes of preparing annual reports;
  • keeping a register of persons distributing solid fuels as well as of the commercial places where the solid fuels are distributed;
  • ascertaining law violations and issuing penal provisions in the order of a specialized law and the Administrative Offenses and Sanctions Act in cases when officials are authorized by the SAMTS president;
  • contributing for timely collection of SAMTS fees and fines;
  • executing other activities assigned by the SAMTS president in connection with the quality control of solid fuels.

 Structure:
DG QCFDH is organized administratively in “Control and Methodology” Department, “Testing of solid fuels for domestic heating” Department and two regional departments:

 

Address, e-mail Contact person Phone   Fax
Directorate General “Quality control of fuels for domestic heating”
Sofia, 1797, 13 Lachezar Stanchev St., floor 7
 Ivaylo Yordanov
Director General		 0878 749 929 +359 2 986 17 07
Directorate General “Quality control of fuels for domestic heating”
Sofia, 1797, 13 Lachezar Stanchev St., floor 2		 Deputy Director General
Department ”Control and Methodology”
Sofia, 1797, 13 Lachezar Stanchev St., floor 7
 Vasil Nenchev
Head of department		 0887 215 095
Regional Department QCFDH Northwest Bulgaria
Sofia, 1797, 13 Lachezar Stanchev St., floor 7
 Andrey Rakov
Head of department		 0893 855494
Regional Department QCFDH Southeast Central Bulgaria
Plovdiv 4000, 67 Saint Petersburg Blvd.
 Todor Atanasov
Head of department		 0888 654560
Department “Testing of solid fuels for domestic heating”
Department “Testing of solid fuels for domestic heating”
Yordanka.Pavlova@damtn.government.bg		 Yordanka Pavlova
Head of department		 0879 504 303

 Legislation:

  • Law on ambient clean air;
  • Ordinance on requirements to quality of solid fuels used for domestic heating, the conditions, terms and order for their control