Ministerial Decree No. 830 validating the Regulation on soil conservation.

This Ministerial Decree establishes the modalities of soil conservation of for the purpose of prevention soil degradation, restoration of soil fertility and rehabilitation of the polluted soil. Soil conservation shall be authorized in the following cases: (a) water and soil erosion, siltation, desertification and reindeer pastures; (b) land affected by subsidence as a result of subsoil management; and (c) land affected by radioactive and oil pollution. Proposal for soil conservation must contain: (a) substantiation; (b) mapping of territory subject to soil conservation; (c) proposals for expropriation of land subject to soil conservation; and (d) calculation of losses of agricultural production and timber extraction as a result of land degradation.