More than 37 tonnes of metal and plastic waste from Bulgaria were stopped at the Giurgiu Border Crossing Point.
Following the verifications, the environmental commissioners established that the transfer documents submitted to the control authorities were incomplete.
The waste was loaded in Bulgaria and was bound for commercial companies in Buzau and Calarasi counties.
Given that the transfer documents were incomplete, the border authorities did not allow access to the territory of Romania in the case of the two means of transport, the waste being returned to the companies of dispatch.
In the last six months, the border police officers prevented entry in Romania through PTF Giurgiu - Ruse the quantity of 589 tonnes of waste of steel, plastic, PET, aluminum, zinc, other metallic materials, metallic dust and brass filings, iron filings, used tires, polystyrene and cardboard, that 28 Bulgarian drivers, eight Romanians and one Macedonian were trying to introduce without complete documents in our country. AGERPRES