The GOB is now drafting implementing legislation to the 1988 UN Convention which will be presented to the Bulgarian Parliament in 1996. Bulgaria's Interministerial Council for Drug Matters was reconvened in 1995 under the new Bulgarian administration and is working to develop a counternarcotics strategy, which it hopes to present to the Council of Ministers in early 1996. Law Enforcement Efforts. The Central Service continues to work with the USG on drug-related cases. In 1995, Bulgarian customs and police officials seized over 487 kilograms of illegal drugs compared to over 920 kilograms in 1994.
Bulgarian authorities attribute the drop in seizures to a shift smuggling routes.
GOB police also seized 6 kilograms of cocaine in December 1995, the largest Bulgarian cocaine seizure to date. The USG has no information of senior GOB officials' involvement in drug trafficking or other narcotics-related crimes. Agreements and Treaties. Bulgaria is a party to the 1988 UN Convention, the 1961 Single Convention and 1972 Protocol thereto, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the 1990 Council of Europe Convention on Money Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of Proceeds From Crime. Law enforcement officials eradicated 9.7 hectares of illegal cannabis in 1995.