Ministerial Decree No. 883 on the elaboration, validation, implementation and modification of water management plans.

This Ministerial Decree stipulates that water management and conservation plans shall be elaborated for each river basin and shall present data on the state of water bodies and their management, and on the arrangements for preventing negative impacts of flooding. The water management plans shall be elaborated for a period of no less than ten years and shall contain quantitative and qualitative indices of the state of water resources, including: (a) indices of water quality; (b) list of water conservation arrangements; (c) water resources balance; (d) water abstraction and effluent waste water discharge limits; and (e) abstraction and discharge quotas.