Decree No. 320 of the Council of Ministers validating the Regulation on urgent measures for soil protection against wind and water erosion.

This Decree obliges ministries, authorized institutions and organizations to ensure the implementation, depending on soil and climatic conditions, scientifically substantiated best practices to protect soils from erosion. In order to combat water erosion, to perform soil cultivation and sow crops across the slopes, contour ploughing, deepening of the arable layer, drilling, intermittent furrowing, splitting, introduce soil-protective crop rotations, strip placement of crops; to grow field protective and water-regulating forest strips, to carry out afforestation of ravines, beams, sands, river banks and reservoirs, construction of terraces and anti-erosion hydraulic structures (cascades, chute channel, dams, ponds, reservoirs and ditches).