Law No. 350 regarding land use and urban planning.

This Law establishes that, in order to ensure the balanced, coherent and sustainable development of the national territory, the authorities of the local public administration harmonizes the decisions related to the territorial development, based on the principles of decentralization, local autonomy and deconcentration of public services. The state, through the public authorities, has the right and duty to ensure, through the activity of urban planning and territorial development, the conditions of sustainable development and the observance of the general interest, according to acting legislation. Spatial management of the territory aims to ensure individuals and collectives the right to fair use and the responsibility for an efficient use of the territory, adequate living conditions, the quality of architecture, the protection of architectural identity, urban and cultural aspects of urban and rural localities, working, service and transport conditions that respond to the diversity of the population's needs and resources, reducing energy consumption, ensuring the protection of natural and built landscapes, preserving biodiversity and creating ecological continuity, security and public sanitation (utilities), the rationalization of travel requests. The territorial development activity must be: (a) global, aiming at the coordination of different sectoral policies in an integrated objective; (b) functional, having to take into account the natural and built environment based on cultural values and common interests; (c) prospective, having to analyze the longterm development trends of economic, ecological, social and cultural phenomena and interventions, and take them into account in the application; (d) democratic, ensuring the participation of the population and its political representatives in the adoption of decision; (e) operational, by detailing and delimiting in the field the provisions of land development plans; (f) integrative, by synthesizing sectoral policies regarding the management the territory of localities; and (g) normative, by specifying the ways of using land, defining the destinations and dimensions of buildings, including infrastructure, landscaping and plantations. The activity of territorial planning and urban planning must be carried out in compliance with local autonomy, based on the principle of partnership, transparency, decentralization of public services, population participation in the decision-making process, as well as sustainable development, according to which the decisions of the present generation must ensure development, without compromising the right of future generations to their own existence and development.