With a 15-year-old soil protection strategy that has failed to prevent further degradation of a resource essential to life, it is time for the EU to establish a legislative framework for soil protection, stressed MEPs on the European Parliament’s environment committee on Wednesday 24 February.
The debate on a draft resolution on this subject showed a broad consensus among the political groups on this need, even if sensitivities differ on the modalities of this future framework.
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