Decree No. 25 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection regulating some issues of procurement or purchase of wild growing plants.

This Decree regulates the issues of procurement or purchase of mushrooms, berries, fruits, medicinal plants and industrial plants, including reed. Limits for the procurement or purchase of wild growing plants shall be set by the local self-government within the quota set by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. Limits shall be set in the form of restriction for the period of one year for the procurement or purchase of wild growing plants, fruits and non-timber products by legal persons or individual entrepreneurs in the process of special management of plant resources or secondary forest management thereby. In the process of distribution and allocation of quotas for the procurement or purchase of wild growing plants the following criteria must be taken into consideration: (a) real volume of procurement or purchase in the two preceding years; (b) observance of the national legislation regulating the matter; and (c) availability of processing equipment and storage facilities.