Bulgaria will receive EUR 300 million additional compensation for the decommissioning of units of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant (NPP). That emerged late last night after a meeting of negotiators from the EU's 27 member states with members of the European Parliament, which approved the bloc's 2010 budget.

The first EUR 75 million tranche will be disbursed in 2010. Bulgaria will receive as much in each of the three years to 2013. The information was announced by Bulgarian MEP Ivaylo Kalfin of the group of socialists and democrats, who took part in the meeting.