Vehicle registration plates of Bulgaria Vehicle registration plates of Bulgaria Standard Bulgarian vehicle registration plates display black glyphs (alphanumeric characters) on a white background, together with – on the left-hand side of the plate – a blue vertical "EU strip" showing the flag of Europe (or, for older-registered cars, the flag of Bulgaria) and, below it, the country code for Bulgaria: BG. The characters displayed in the main field of the plate are: The format is thus XX NNNN YY, where XX (or X) is the province code, NNNN is the serial number, and YY is the series. Since 1992, only glyphs that are common
BG Group announced that Helge Lund, former CEO of Statoil, would become CEO. Lund left the company on 15 February 2016 following successful completion of the Shell acquisition and was replaced by a Shell appointed transition CEO. RepRisk listed the BG Group as seventh in its top ten of ""Most Environmentally and Socially Controversial Companies of 2010"". Reasons for the company's inclusion are as follows. The BG Group were associated with deep-sea drilling plans in the Sicilian Strait. Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO) consortium that includes BG was reportedly fined USD 21 million for environmental violations at the onshore Karachaganak Oil and Gas