Regulation on the reclamation of disturbed areas, improvement of low lands, removal and utilization of the humus layer.
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This Regulation sets the rules aimed to define the necessary procedures for the reclamation of disturbed areas situated on the agricultural land (also agricultural, forestry and other similar activities) which needs a restoration of the above mentioned damaged areas, in order to improve the landscape and its quality in terms of soil and arable and/or usable land layer (provisions also determining the use of the humus layer; deeper layers, which after the processing, are suitable for development of vegetation: examples such as nontoxic clay and sands, loess clay, loam, weathered and smashed rocks).