EU Soil Monitoring and Resilience Law

by name voted on 23.10.2025

Summary

A proposal for a new EU law to monitor and protect soil health, aiming for healthy soils across Europe by 2050.

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Key points

The directive aims to achieve healthy soil status across the entire European Union by the year 2050.
A new classification system will be used to categorize soil health into five levels, ranging from high ecological status to critically degraded.
A digital soil health data portal will be established within two years to provide public access to georeferenced soil data.
Member States must ensure all potentially contaminated sites are identified and recorded in a national register within seven years.

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Documents (PDFs)

DRAFT RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) DRAFT REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Directive) Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law)

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