Ministerial Decree No. 220 validating the Regulation on state control over exploration, management and protection of subsoil.

This Ministerial Decree establishes tasks, functions, rights and duties of the bodies carrying out state control over geological exploration, study, management and protection of subsoil, and also state control in the aforesaid sphere. State Committee on Environmental Protection, State Inspection on Supervision over Geological Exploration of Subsoil, Safe Industrial Activity, Geological Survey and Municipal Waste management and State Committee on Geology and Mineral Resources, and also local self-government bodies shall be the authorized state institutions in the sphere of exploration, management and protection of subsoil. The scope of the aforesaid authorized state institutions shall be to ensure enforcement of legislation on subsoil.