Consitution of the Socialist Republic of Romania – August 1965

National economy “is based on the socialist property upon the means of production; the exploitation of human beings is abolished and the repartition of goods follows the socialist principle of labor quantity and quality. Labor is a honor duty for every citizen of the country.” (Art.5)

Property is socialist – State property or cooperative property” ( Art.6)

„Any resources of subsoil, mines, lands, forests, natural energy sources, enterprises, banks, agricultural cooperatives, communications, transportation, state house holdings and institutions belong to all people; they are state property.” (Art.7)

„Exterior Commerce is state monopoly.” (Art.8)

National economy management is ruled by the Romanian socialist state that organizes plans and manages the national economy, defends the socialist property and guarantees the rights of all citizens and the legality. (Art.13)

“Ministries and other central administrative bodies apply the state policies in their specific branches and activities; they coordinate and control the enterprises, the economic organizations and the state institutions that activate under their subordination. (Art. 83)

LAW No. 9 - June 1973 – about the environmental protection

This law resulted from the international trend and it was designed to attest the modern vision of Romania on the world problems.
They decided some measures to assure the improvement of the environment, according to the nature preserving requirements. These regulations became an unitary state policy, part of the planned activity for the economic-social development of the country.

The protection of the environment is a permanent duty for the state bodies and organizations, for the cooperative and guild organizations, for all citizens (Art.3)
This protection means „to preserve the ecologic balance and to improve the natural factors, to develop the natural values of the country, to improve the labor and life conditions for the present and future generations. It needs the rational usage of the natural resources, the prevention and the fighting of the pollution, the protection of the natural factors of the environment.”

The main environmental obligations, regulated by this law were:
 to use rationally the natural resources
 to harmonize the criteria of economic efficiency with the social ones
 to apply non-polluting technologies by equipping the technological systems with special devices
 to prevent and limit the harmfulness effects of the natural phenomena on the environment
 to recycle the industrial offal
 to retain, neutralize and deposit the unrecoverable residues by respecting the legal environmental provisions
 to use the non-polluting means of transport or to equip them with special devices in order to reduce the noxious effects and to respect the legal regulations in the environmental field
 to produce and rationally use pesticide and other chemical substances with low level of harmfulness
 to support the research on environmental protection
 to educate people in order to actively participate to the environmental protection
 to cooperate internationally at technical, economic an scientific levels
In order to protect the subsoil and its resources, this law stated the obligation to develop the geologic, extractive, exploitation works only by respecting the legal regulations and the multi-annual plans for developing the national economy. (Art.21)
The state bodies directly involved in this strategy were: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Industry and Water, National Council of Water, Ministry of Mines, Oil and Geology, Ministry of Chemical Industry.
This law also stated the founding of a National Council for the Environmental Protection, as a central body subordinated to the Council of Ministers. ( Art.62)