Regulation of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry no. 101 of 2018 concerning guidelines for the Recovery of Land Contaminated with Hazardous and Toxic Waste.

This Ministerial Regulation, implementing the provisions of articles 215 (2) and 216 of Government Regulation no. 101 of 2014 regarding the management of hazardous and toxic waste and repealing the Regulation of the Ministry of Environment no. 33 of 2009 regarding procedures for recovery of waste contaminated land from hazardous and toxic materials, consists of 43 articles and five annexes and concerns guidelines for the remediation of soils contaminated by hazardous waste. 
This Ministerial Regulation defines the following relevant terms: hazardous and toxic materials; waste; hazardous and toxic waste; environmental function recovery; contaminated land; recovery success; post-recovery; approval of environmental function recovery plan; waste collector; waste carrier; waste utilisation; waste processor; hazardous waste landfill; dumping; environmental supervisory office. Concerning the restoration of land contaminated by waste, the Regulation provides the measures to: identify the contamination, determine the scale of the pollution, prepare a plan to restore environmental functions, undertake cleanup activities, and conduct post-remediation monitoring. The restoration process is organised in five stages: 1) planning; 2) implementation; 3) surveillance; 4) evaluation; 5) post-recovery monitoring.
The planning stage consists of: a) data and information collection, carried out through a field survey and a systematic testing of soil, water and/or groundwater samples, and b) preparation of the Environmental Function Recovery Plan, that is a document prepared according to the format specified in the Annex 2 and containing detailed information such as the historical overview of contamination, mapping of pollution distribution, identification of pollutants and the pollution sources, determination of hazardous waste, methods for recovering land contaminated with hazardous waste, post-recovery environmental quality monitoring plan. The plan is reported to the competent authority for surveillance and evaluation. The post-recovery monitoring stage is carried out through monitoring the quality of ground water through taking and testing groundwater samples after the restoration activities are fully completed. Other matters covered by this Regulation concern: recovery of contaminated lands at national and local level; financing; transitional and final provisions.