The site in the area of the Sofia international airport that was eyed by the Plovdiv International Fair is classified as a green area and any title transfer will first have to be approved by the chief architect of the city, Petar Dikov, it emerged at a Cabinet meeting on July 17.

At the same meeting, the government gave the go-ahead to transfer the site from the assets of the Transport Ministry to those of the Economy Ministry. Dikov could not be reached for comment on July 17.

The Economy Ministry will next contribute the site to the balance sheet of the Plovdiv fair. It would be developed as the Sofia branch of the fair. The proposal to provide the site to the Plovdiv fair came from Transport Minister Petar Moutafchiev.

Economy Minister Petar Dimitrov has also endorsed the idea of setting up branches of the fair in other cities.