About Us

State Reserve and Wartime Stocks State Agency our mission is to help society in crises

The main task in the activity of the State Reserve and Wartime Stocks State Agency is to satisfy the needs of the national economy and the population for strategic stocks and materials for a certain period of time in crisis situations, state of emergency and state of war and/or martial law in compliance with current nomenclatures and regulations for state reserves and wartime stocks and the general state wartime plan.

The State Reserve and Wartime Stocks State Agency also performs functions of further accumulation of commodity-material values ​​such as state reserves (SR) and wartime stocks (WS). The goal is to increase and reach their percentage security, according to the nomenclatures and regulations for them, adopted by Decisions of the Council of Ministers.

What do we store?

• Food products;
• Water;
• Medicines;
• Hospital and household property;
• Timber;
• Fuels, etc.

An integral part of the management of the already created state reserves and wartime stocks is their management by renewing the stocks and materials with an expiring shelf life, control of their movement and availability, compliance and maintenance of the appropriate quantity and quality, with a view to guaranteeing their readiness for use. Thus, in case of necessity and in accordance with the normative regulations, an adequate response from the government is ensured in accordance with the interests of national security.

 The Agency maintains raw materials, stocks and materials (state reserves) in constant readiness for use, with a view to national security and overcoming crises.

When the central or local government is requesting the release of state reserves, the Agency always strives to provide the necessary quantities as quickly and efficiently as possible, in accordance with the law.

Another essential task of the Agency is to ensure the provision of the national economy for a minimum period of 90 days with energy stocks, in accordance with the national energy and economic security of the country and the European Union.

Today, the warehouses for long-term storage of raw materials, stocks and materials of the State Reserve and Wartime Stocks State Agency have been modernized and brought up to the requirements of Bulgarian and European legislation.

How the Agency’s activities are financed?

The Agency is a legal entity with budgetary support. The chairman of the State Reserve and Wartime Stocks State Agency is the first-level spending unit with a budget at the Council of Ministers.

In order to finance its activities, the Agency draws up a budget, adopted annually by the Law on the State Budget of the Republic of Bulgaria for the relevant year. Detailed information can be found under the heading Transparent Management.

Our mission is to help and contribute to handling critical situations.

In recent years, the Agency has been involved in overcoming the consequences of a number of crises and disaster situations by providing more than:

4,003,648 liters of bottled drinking water;

229,749 kg of canned food;

135,900 pieces of personal protective equipment;

32,440 liters of disinfectant;

8,750 pieces of hospital and household property;

12,000 medical products;

130,100 pieces of medical devices.

Normatively defined functions and responsibilities

The State Reserve and Wartime Stocks State Agency performs the following legally defined functions and responsibilities:

In compliance with State Contingency Reserves and Wartime Stocks Act  carries out the state policy in the field of planning, creating, preserving, protecting, renewing, maintaining, releasing, using, accounting, financing and controlling of the state reserves and wartime stocks of the country in accordance with the interests of national security.

Pursuant to the Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Stocks Act, which transposes into national legislation the requirements of the Council Directive 2009/119/EC, it also carries out state supervision over the constituting, holding, replacement, use and replenishment of emergency crude oil and petroleum products stocks and of specific stocks of petroleum products, as well as the execution of the procedures related to the implementation of the Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Stocks Act in accordance with national and European energy security.

Pursuant to the Obligations to the International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage Act, collects and summarizes information on the quantity, quality and types of taxable oil delivered to the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria, its recipients, the persons who carried out the intra-Union importation of oil, the country of origin and dispatchment of the taxable oil and the type of transport by which it has been delivered.

Under the Act on Administrative Regulation of Economic Activities Associated with Oil and Petroleum Products, participates in an Advisory Council to the Minister of the Economy and Industry.

The Agency over the years