Evaluation of Soil Protection Aspects in Certain Programmes of Measures Adopted by Member States
Final Report
- Publication
- Citation
European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment, Evaluation of soil protection aspects in certain programmes of measures adopted by Member States – Final report, Publications Office, 2007, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2779/12302
The proposed Soil Framework Directive should make provisions for Member States to identify and assess the impact of sectoral policies on the prevention of soil degradation processes and the protection of soil functions. As some sectoral EU policies either exacerbate or mitigate soil degradation processes, it is important to be able to evaluate to what extent given soil threats are effectively tackled already. On the one hand this depends on the instruments as such, may it be directives, regulations or conventions; and on the other hand, on the way these instruments are implemented in the Member States.
The objective of this study is to identify, describe and evaluate the measures already taken by Member States under the Water Framework Directive (WFD), Cross- Compliance (CC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to combat and mitigate the soil threats identified and their potential contribution to the soil conservation objectives as outlined in the EC Communication ‘Towards a Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection’ (COM (2006) 231 and 232). Other programmes, measures and policy instruments, including national provisions for soil protection, are outside the scope of this study.