At its plenary session on Wednesday 19 June, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) welcomed the possibility introduced by the EU Council of adapting the soil monitoring directive “to local conditions”.
At the Environment Council in Luxembourg on Monday 17 June, the Member States adopted the soil monitoring directive, the aim of which is to make all soils healthy and eliminate land take by 2050 (see EUROPE B13433A3).
The CoR stresses the “widely differing conditions in...