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# Romania, Bulgaria and Türkiye extend Black Sea mission to undersea cables
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-07-08-black-sea-undersea-infrastructure-mou/
- Published: 2026-07-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T10:50:06.000Z
- Description: Romania's defence minister signed an amendment to the Romania Bulgaria Türkiye memorandum on the Black Sea mine countermeasures group, signed at the NATO Ankara summit, extending its mandate to protecting critical undersea infrastructure.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Defence and space, #news, #verified

Verified [Romanian Ministry of National Defence press release nr. 197, 8 July 2026](https://www.mapn.ro/cpresa/19305%5Fromania,-bulgaria-%C8%99i-turcia-extind-misiunile-grupului-mcm-black-sea?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish that any monitoring assets have been deployed yet, or that funding has been committed to the expanded mandate.

**How this item counts.** Towards autonomy: it changes who operates. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 2 of 3 (medium), Verified counts in full: weight +4 of 36 possible. RO/BG/TR agree to extend mission to operate undersea-cable protection; no assets deployed yet.. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)