Governmental Decree No. HG707/1993 validating the Regulation on land of industry, transport, communications, defense and other categories of land for specific purposes and the Regulation on the procedure for writing off reclamation systems and transferring irrigated and drained land to the category of non-irrigated land.

Regulation on land of industry, transport, communications, defense and other categories of land for specific purposes regulates the procedure for the use and determination of land of industry, transport, communications, defense other categories of land for specific purposes. Land of industry, transport, communications, defense and land for other specific purposes shall be acknowledged land allotted by local government for accommodation and operation of administrative, household, auxiliary buildings and structures of industrial, mining, transport and other enterprises, institutions and organizations, construction of access roads and utilities, organization of industrial production, construction of highways, laying of communication lines and power transmission. The sizes of land plots provided for these purposes are determined in in accordance with the approved standards and design and technical documentation. Allotment of land plots is carried out with the consideration of the sequence of their development. Providing enterprises, institutions and organizations with land plots for development of minerals (mining) is carried out only with licenses for industrial development of deposits, the act of mining allotment and reclamation of waste areas. Regulation on the procedure for writing off reclamation systems and transferring irrigated and drained land to the category of non-irrigated land establishes that land shall be included in the category of irrigated or drained on the basis of acts of the state commissions for acceptance into operation and write-off of reclamation systems. The conversion (transfer) of irrigated land to the category of non-irrigated land is carried out on the basis of acts by state commission for acceptance into operation and write-off of reclamation systems and exclusively by the decree of the Government of the Republic of Moldova. Irrigated land is transferred to the category of non-irrigated land in the following cases: (a) loss of an irrigation source; (b) physical deterioration of the irrigation network, requiring its replacement or reconstruction; (c) deterioration of water quality to indicators unacceptable for irrigation of agricultural crops; (d) expropriation of agricultural land for non-agricultural and non-forestry state and public needs; (e) drained agricultural land expropriated for non-agricultural and non-forestry state and public needs shall be written off. When writing off irrigated land with an operating drainage network, it shall be written off, and the irrigated land is transferred to the drained category.