Cabinet Regulation No. 406 of 2008 on Methodology for the Determination of Surface Water Body Protection Zones

The Regulation prescribes the methodology for the determination of surface water body protection zones. Surface water body protection zones shall be determined along pronounced contours in nature, for example, relief (pronounced locations of the change of height of the land surface), roads, streets, boundaries of forest sections, cross-rides, ditches, boundaries of cultivated meadows and arable land fields, boundaries of built-up or landscaped territories or along an imaginary line, taking into account the requirements specified in Section 7 of the Protection Zone Law. The protection zone of a surface water body, the shore line of which has been artificially transformed (moulded, secured with artificial fixtures), shall be determined in a zone, which is not less than 10 metres wide from the transformed shore line or the outer edge of the fixture. If a dam forms the shore line, the protection zone shall be determined in accordance with Section 7, Paragraph four of the Protection Zone Law.