Law No. 82 “On state reserves.”

State reserves are constituted as material reserves, intended for operative interventions for the protection of the population, the economy and the defense of the country, in exceptional situations that affect a major public interest, determined by natural calamities, epidemics, epizootics, terrorist attacks, industrial and/or nuclear accidents, social phenomena, dysfunctions of the economy, external conjunctures and in case of war. State reserve is part of the private domain of the state and are administered by the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues, which is subordinate to the Government and coordinated by the General Secretariat of the Government. The nomenclature of products shall be intended the list including raw materials and products, which can be constituted as state reserve stocks, the maximum amount of stock and the indicative term of long-term storage. The nomenclature of state reserve products is strictly secret and is approved by Government decisions, of a military nature, at the proposal of the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues. Emergency stock shall be intended the quantity of product deficient or nonexistent in the state reserve stock at a given time, whose immediate need for intervention involves emergency public procurement procedures. Economic operators who have state reserve products to keep are obliged to ensure their freshness, quantitative integrity and qualitative level, within their activity, for a fee or by creating specific facilities, established under the law. Products that have reached the limit of the indicative long-term storage period or those that present a risk of qualitative depreciation or moral wear and tear are refreshed or changed in assortment, based on an annual program established by the National Administration of State Reserves and Special Issues. For situations of maximum urgency, the Prime Minister can order the immediate granting of humanitarian aid, with the following that they will be approved later, by decision of the Government.