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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9271

23 September 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 19 / 44
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/environment
Commission unveils thematic strategy and framework directive to preserve and protect soil

Brussels, 22/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 22 September, the European Commission unveiled a strategy for ensuring the Europe's soils remain healthy and capable of supporting human activities and ecosystems. Good quality soil is essential to our economic activities as it provides us with food, drinking water, biomass and raw materials - and all our human activities are somehow related to soil. But soil degradation is accelerating across the EU, with negative effects on human health, ecosystems...

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