To address these key soil threats, a new regulation proposal has been adopted by the European Commission. The Soil Monitoring Law provides a legal framework that aims to help achieve healthy soils by ...

To ensure the same level of protection to soil that exists for water, the marine environment and air in the EU, the Commission put forward the soil monitoring directive on 5 July 2023. The ultimate ...

The Council reached a provisional deal with the European Parliament on a directive to improve monitoring and assessment of all soils within the EU.

While Brussels has lauded the law as a pragmatic and flexible milestone, environmental campaigners argue it falls short of reversing damage on the ground. What’s in the law? At its core, the Soil ...

After nearly two years of negotiation, MEPs and European governments have agreed the text of a new Soil Monitoring Law, requiring governments to put in place robust data collection systems and ...

A draft law designed to help restore Europe’s degraded soils to health has survived a vote in the European Parliament, but only after it was stripped of legally binding targets and monitoring ...

The Coordination for Soil Carbon Research and Monitoring Act would support interagency work on soil carbon sequestration research.

By 42 votes to 26, with 14 abstentions, MEPs on Monday (11 March) adopted their draft position on a Soil Monitoring Law proposed by the European Commission last July, intended to further the aim ...

The fate of the Soil Monitoring Law was by no means assured, with several key pieces of European Green Deal legislation having already been either shelved or delayed indefinitely in the run up to ...