Excise duties on fuels jump again

Higher excise duties on fuels will be implemented since January 1^st, 2008, according to the Bulgarian Parliament decision. This is the next step towards reaching the mininal levels adopted in EU. The excise duty on diesel fuel goes up by 65 leva per 1000 litres and the duty on gasoline - by 50 leva per 1000 litres. Such increment of ecxise duty will result in increasing retail prices of diesel by 0.08 leva per litre. Gasoline is about to go up by 0.06 leva per litre.