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The nature of impact of human activities over the environment can be various and depending of many implied factors, as the intensity, period and the toxicity of the involved materials. The concept of ecological restoration is relatively new in the dictionary of the environmental protection field of activity and implicitly the regulations regarding this field are in the beginning. Lately, at global level and in the European Union a growing interest is observable regarding the inventory and finding economically and technically viable solutions of solving the problem of the contaminated sites. This process involves at first a revolution in the field of regulations on which our country must line up to. In our country an endeavour was made to manage these sites, but the legal instruments involved in the process were limited and without any real results. The paper identifies a set of instruments implied at global level regarding the management of contaminated sites, the EU legal instruments and the struggle of alignment of the local regulations to the global tendencies.
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