Environment 2013 - Romania

Legislation

1 Main environmental regulations

What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?

Romania has made extensive progress in the field of environmental protection law before and further to the EU accession date (1 January 2007). Apart from the general regulations and principles on environmental protection, the following areas of environmental law are covered by the applicable legal provisions: air, water and soil quality, pollution control and risk management, ecological labelling, management and disposal of waste and dangerous materials, noise, biodiversity, bio-security and preservation, atmospheric pollution and climate change.

Romanian legal environmental aspects are regulated by the following main legal acts: