Ministerial Decree No. 976 of 1997 regarding validation of the Regulation on the modalities of expropriation, protection and management of contaminated and disturbed land.

The document consists of 4 sections. Plots of land subject to radioactive contamination and not ensuring crops complying with sanitary requirements and norms shall be subject to removal from the category of agricultural land. Expropriation of the aforesaid category of land from owners of the plots of land and non-public land tenants shall be carried out in legal form while expropriation from state land tenants shall be carried out by decision of the competent body. If it is impossible to restore soil fertility of degraded agricultural land, contaminated land by chemicals and (or) radioactive substances over maximum allowable limits by industrial waste, effluent waste water, infected by quarantine pests and plant disease, conservation of land shall be carried out. Plots of land subject to conservation shall be expropriated from land-owners or land tenants for the period of conservation in accordance with civil legislation and shall be transferred into the category of reserve land.