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The European Parliament has adopted its first-reading report
on the first EU directive on soil protection.
Among the key points adopted by MEPs is the setting up of
public inventories of contaminated sites within the EU and
the need for Member States to draw up remediation strategies.
MEPs reinstate a list of potentially soil polluting activities.
Member States will be allowed some flexibility as to how
they put the directive into practice.
In their first reading report - drawn up by Cristina Gutierrez-Cortines
(EPP-ED, ES) - MEPs aim to promote the sustainable use of
soil, to prevent soil degradation due to climate change -
or to mitigate and remedy its consequences.
The proposed directive should end the fragmentation of EU
soil policy with existing provisions currently divided between
various pieces of legislation on waste, pesticides and nature
protection. A vote to reject the directive did not pass, with
225 votes in favour, 395 against and 11 abstentions.
The key points covered included -
- Agriculture and new bio-waste directive
- National or regional inventories of contaminated sites
- Remediation
- Cost-benefit analysis of remediation
- Priority areas
- Soil sealing - and
- Agriculture and climate change.
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