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Awareness Raising > Celebrating the Soils of Europe – EU Presidency Soils Series

In support of the activities associated with the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the SOIL Action of the JRC is collaborating with the European Soil Bureau Network and national Soil Science Societies across Europe to promote the importance of soil for society as a whole and the need for it’s sustainable management and use.

To this end, the JRC and its collaborators aim to promote a characteristic soil from the Member State which holds Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the duration of its six month tenure. Each country will present a general overview of the soils found on its territory and a soil type that is characteristic or notable for that state. Please click on the links below to learn more about these soils (please note that for each year, the two presidency sessions are January 1st – June 30th and July 1st – December 31st respectively).

Soil performs many vital functions that are worthy of protection because of their socio-economic as well as environmental importance. For this reason, the European Commission has adopted a Soil Thematic Strategy with the objective to protect soils across the EU. For more information, please visit http://ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/index_en.htm

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