Decree No. 81 of the Cabinet of Ministers validating the Regulation on the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection is the authorized environmental institution carrying out the following tasks: (a) elaboration and implementation of the common state policy in the sphere of environmental protection and rational nature management; (b) the state control over the observance of environmental safety standards, use of surface water and groundwater, atmospheric air, animal and plant species, protected areas, minerals and peat, protection of soil, ozone lay