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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of April 27, 1995 No. 440-XIII

About the water protection zones and strips of the rivers and reservoirs

(as amended on 19-02-2024)

The parliament adopts this law.

Chapter I General provisions

Article 1. Legal basis

(1) Protection of the rivers and reservoirs from pollution, contaminations, depletions and instruction, and also use of the land grounds adjoining to them are performed on the basis of the Constitution, the Law on environmental protection, this law and other regulations.

(2) This law regulates procedure for creation of the water protection zones and coastal podookhranny strips of the rivers and reservoirs, the mode of their use and activities for their protection. Its action extends on all legal entities and physical person, including foreign.

Article 2. Basic concepts

In this law the following concepts are used:

the water protection zone of the rivers and reservoirs - the territory of the established sizes adjoining water object, intended for protection of surface water against pollution, depletion and instruction;

coastal water preserving strip - the territory of the established sizes which is part of the water protection zone, intended for creation of forest strips or grassing;

bank protection forest strip - the forest strip along the coast of water object intended for its protection against erosion and landslides;

brow of coastal slope of bed - the line of sharp change of the coast separating its upper flat part the underlying abrupt site;

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