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UPDATED INVENTORY AND ASSESSMENT OF SOIL PROTECTION POLICY INSTRUMENTS IN EU MEMBER STATES OVERVIEW
Ana Frelih-Larsen, Ecologic Institute
Brussels, 5 December 2016
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Study aims
Overview of the Soil Inventory
• Process
• Content
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Study Aims
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Develop an inventory of existing and upcoming policy instruments at EU level and in 28 Member States in a collaborative Wiki web platform
Identify preliminary gaps in EU legislation with respect to coverage of soil threats and functions
Review how Member State instruments complement EU level policies
Facilitate discussion with Member State
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Developing Soil Inventory …
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Collaborative process
• Study Team (MS Assessors)
• Expert Group on Soil Protection
• EIONET Soil Network
Soil Wiki as an internal working tool
… creating an updated policy baseline
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Wiki Structure
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• MS policy instrument pages • Brief summary, institutional responsibility, status (in place / pipeline),
relevance to soil threats / functions, management measures, funding, land cover classes, monitoring and indicators, links to original texts
• Content is captured in labels
• Overview pages • Member States
• Soil Threats
• Soil Functions
• EU instruments
• Nationally initiated
• Type of instrument
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Wiki Content – EU legislation
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35 EU instruments
Most frequently tagged EU instruments:
• Water Framework Directive
• Soil Thematic Strategy
• Nitrates Directive
• Habitats and Birds Directives
• Environmental Impact Assessment Directive
• CAP (cross-compliance, rural development programmes, greening payments)
• Waste Framework Directive
• Industrial Emissions Directive
• Sewage Sludge Directive
• Waste Framework Directive
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Wiki Content – Member States
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Number of MS Instruments 671
Regulatory binding Instruments: 61% (acts, decrees, ordinances, etc.)
Regulatory non-binding Instruments: 12% (strategies, action plans, etc.)
Non-regulatory instruments: 27% (monitoring, awareness raising, etc.)
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Number of MS Instruments per Soil Threat
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Number of MS Instruments per Soil Function
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Carbon Pool Platform Human Activities
Biomass Production Biodiversity Pool Providing Raw Materials
Water and Nutrients Cycling & Storage
Storing Geological & Archeological
Heritage
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Relation to EU level instruments
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All MS Instruments Directly linked to EU Partly linked to EU binding Partly linked to EU non-binding
Not linked to EU
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Relation to EU level instruments
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All MS Instruments Directly linked to EU Partly linked to EU binding Partly linked to EU non-binding
Not linked to EU
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Nationally Initiated
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Nationally initiated instruments as share of total
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All MS Instruments
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Nationally initiated instruments – Examples
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Soil Protection Acts / Decrees (e.g. AT, BE, DE, NL, SK)
Agricultural / Cultivated Land Acts / Decrees (e.g. BG,
HR, SI, CZ, PL, DK, UK)
Acts / Decrees related to contamination and remediation (e.g. AT, FI, SE)
Subsurface / subsoil use (e.g. LV, NL)
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To conclude
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Soil inventory creates an overview and a baseline
Diversity and large number of instruments
Wiki as the basis for
Analysing complementarities among EU and MS instruments
Identifying and focusing areas for further investigation
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Thank you for your attention.
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Dr. Ana Frelih-Larsen
Senior Fellow, Coordinator Agriculture & Soils
Ecologic Institute
Contact: [email protected] Project website: http://www.ecologic.eu/13090