The activities of harvesting, capturing and/or acquiring and/or trading plants and animals from wild flora and fauna, terrestrial and aquatic, whether alive or semi-processed, or parts or products thereof, mine flowers, plant fossils and vertebrate and invertebrate animal fossils, on national territory or for export, may be organized and carried out only by authorized individuals or legal entities, in accordance with the provisions of the procedure of Order 410/2008.

Authorization requests are resolved within a maximum of 15 working days from the date of registration, provided that the applicant's submitted documentation is complete.

If the documentation is not complete, the competent authority is obliged to notify the applicant, within a maximum of 10 days, about the missing documents in the authorization file.