In its proposal for a directive on ‘soil monitoring and resilience’, which it presented on Wednesday 5 July, the European Commission suggests that the European Union take a step towards promoting healthy soils by 2050, the long-term objective of the EU’s 2030 biodiversity strategy.
Flexibility and subsidiarity are at the heart of this future ‘European Green Deal’ legislation, which aims to put in place a solid and coherent monitoring framework for all EU soils so that Member...