The request can be sent by mail, courier, fax, or e-mail. The request will be submitted to the STPF/ Coast Guard or SPF, depending on the specific activity. I. The Territorial Services of the Border Police/ Coast Guard approve the following activities carried out in the border area, within 500 meters from the border line towards the interior: - mining; - oil, gas, mineral water, thermal water exploitation; - forestry, gravel pits, quarries; - land improvements and irrigation works, embankments; - works or constructions on watercourses; - works to ensure navigation conditions; - tourist constructions and amenities, recreational or of another nature; - geological research or prospecting. II. The Border Police Sectors / Ship Groups approve: - access of persons to the state border protection strip up to the border corridor or the water shore, as the case may be, with the approval of the local public administration; - access of persons, only through the places and under the conditions set by the local public administration, to carry out activities beyond the state border protection strip, in the situation where it extends further inward, as well as on islands and islets belonging to the Romanian state, located in the border waters; - keeping in the places established by the port captaincies or, as the case may be, by the local public administration authorities, of boats and vessels registered according to the law, located on border and inland maritime waters; - carrying out recreational and sports activities in the border waters; - grazing animals, during the day up to the state border protection strip, at the external border, or up to the border corridor, at the internal border, and at night, up to 500 meters from these, towards the interior, in places established by the local public administration authorities; - organized hunting of predatory animals, within 500 meters from the state border protection strip, at the external border, or from the border corridor, at the internal border, towards the interior, based on decisions of the local councils.*