Ministerial Decree No. 943 of 1993 regarding especially authorised state institutions in the field of environmental protection.

The Government decrees that the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resource and its territorial branches is especially authorized environmental institution. The Ministry is entitled to coordinate within its competence the functioning of especially authorized state institutions and their territorial branches in their respective fields: Committee on geology and the use of subsoil, Committee on land resources and land survey, Federal Fisheries Committee, Federal Geodetic and Carthographical Service, Federal Forest Service, Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Service, Committee on water resources. The Ministry and its territorial branches are responsible for the recreation and the improvement of quality of environment.