Legal framework
The Research and Development Station for Plant Culture on Dabuleni Sands (SCDCPN) was established and operated on the basis of HCM MO 565/06.05.1970, as amended and supplemented by HGR 502/1993, HGR 42/1994 and OG 25/1995, completed in 1995, 1996 and 1997, on the establishment, organization and financing of research and development activity, Law 290/ 2002 on the organization and functioning of research and development units in the fields of agriculture, forestry, food industry and the Academy of Agricultural sciences and Silvice Gheorghe Ionescu Sişesti, Law 147/2004 and Law525/2004.
In 2005, through HG 1881/2005, the Research and Development Center for Plant Culture on Dabuleni Sands was established, through the reorganization of the Central Research Station for Plant Culture on Dabuleni Sands and the merger with the Marşani Potato Research and Production Station.
Currently, by Law 45 of 20.03.2009 and Law 72/20011 for the amendment and completion of Law No.45/2009, on the organization and functioning of the Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences “Gheorghe Ionescu-Sişesti” and the research and development system in the fields of agriculture, forestry and food industry, the unit is named the Development Research Station for Plant Culture on Sands Dabuleni, a public institution with legal personality, based in Dăbuleni, Dolj County, under the supervision of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Silvice Gheorghe Ionescu Şişesti, Bucharest.