{"id":16443,"date":"2022-03-19T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/articles\/call-ue-legge-europea-suolo\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T08:52:13","slug":"call-eu-soil-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/environment\/call-eu-soil-law\/","title":{"rendered":"European law on soil, full of proposals for the EU call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 200 responses came from the various souls of European civil society to the consultation launched by the EU Commission in view of the future law to protect the soil. Among them, the suggestions and proposals of the Re Soil Foundation<\/span><\/h2>\n

by Emanuele Isonio<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biodiversity, food safety, natural carbon sinks, citizen health and the quality and safety of food production: all crucial aspects for our life. And they all depend on the soil. “A European law on soil health is therefore urgent, to make the challenge of reducing land degradation<\/strong> credible, developing a set of tools and regulatory levers to guide the behavior of economic, social and institutional actors”. Thus begins the document sent by the Re Soil Foundation to the European Commission in response to the “call for evidence<\/a>” launched in view of the implementation of a law on soil, announced by Brussels as part of its Soil Strategy 2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The call is a public consultation through which the Commission invites all interested parties to provide their point of view on a certain issue, providing empirical evidence on the expected benefits, unwanted effects and issues that should be within a regulatory act of European Union. A sort of participatory process<\/strong> to arrive at a normative text that is as shared as possible.<\/p>\n

Three priority actions<\/h5>\n

Within its document, the Re Soil Foundation specifically suggests three priority actions to help restore health to soil and ecosystems:<\/p>\n

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  1. Stop thinking about unlimited growth.<\/strong> In fact, it is not possible to limit oneself to replacing fossil materials one by one with renewable ones.<\/li>\n
  2. Using bioproducts<\/strong> to activate cultural change. Objective: To redesign the way in which materials are produced, consumed and disposed of, favoring the growth of multi-product supply chains with high added value.<\/li>\n
  3. Stop the degradation of water and soil, using biodegradable products<\/strong> for those applications where there is a high risk of dispersion and accumulation in the environment and avoiding the loss and waste of organic matter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To achieve the three proposed objectives, the importance of the development of the circular bioeconomy<\/strong> and the use of clean compost and other organic materials in agriculture are emphasized. The latter, the document reads, \u201crepresent an important solution to two problems: adding a precious soil improver to the land and preventing organic waste from ending up in landfills, a practice prohibited by the new framework directive on waste starting from 2024.<\/p>\n

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    Confirmation from the US that composting helps soil and the climate<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n