Soil Monitoring Law: The EU adopts new rules for healthy soils and resilient Europe

What does this mean?

Introduce EU-wide monitoring systems to assess the physical, chemical and biological condition of soils, ensuring that data is comparable across Member States.
Target key issues such as land-take, soil sealing (e.g., covering fertile land with concrete/asphalt), contaminated sites, and emerging pollutants like PFAS, microplastics and pesticides.
Provide a common methodology and support tools for Member States to implement sustainable soil management practices.

For MRV4SOC project, this new legislative framework displays the increasing importance of the project’s work both at national and EU level.

The Soil Monitoring Law, aimed at establishing healthy, resilient soils across Europe by 2050 has been approved by the European Parliament.