Progress in the management of contaminated sites in Europe

These are the underlying data for the report "Progress in management of contaminated sites (CSI 015)", based on the 2011 EIONET NRC Soil data collection concerning contaminated sites, and stored in an MS Excel file. Some data/information that arrived at JRC after the data collection deadline (for Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Latvia) are bundled in an additional file.
Progress in the management of contaminated sites in Europe
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Datasets
Soil Threats Data
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No
Publisher: 
European Commission
Year: 
2013
Themes: 
Soil Contamination

Soil contamination is the occurrence of pollutants in soil above a certain level causing a deterioration or loss of one or more soil functions. Also, Soil Contamination can be considered as the presence of man-made chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment. This type of contamination typically arises from the rupture of underground storage tanks, application of pesticides, percolation of contaminated surface water to subsurface strata, leaching of wastes from landfills or direct discharge of industrial wastes to the soil. The most common chemicals involved are petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides, lead and other heavy metals. The occurrence of this phenomenon is correlated with the degree of industrialization and intensity of chemical usage.

The data that form the basis for the published JRC Reference Report "Progress in the Management of Contaminated Sites in Europe" are available to the public, as an MS Excel file that incorporates not only the data collected in 2011/2012 but also the data from previous exercises. Additionally, some data/information that arrived at JRC after the data collection deadline (for Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Latvia) are also made available.    

Indicator "Progress in management of contaminated sites (CSI 015)"

At EU-level, the issue of contaminated sites (local contamination) and contaminated land (diffuse contamination) has been considered by: Indicator "Progress in management of contaminated sites (CSI 015)" 

- (Period 2007- 2014) ESDAC and the indicator "Progress in management of contaminated sites" (CSI 015):
In the context of the development of the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) by JRC, considered as a focal point for soil related data in Europe, it was jointly decided by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Joint Research Centre (JRC) that all soil data management activities carried out by EEA in collaboration with EIONET will be transferred to the JRC. This decision took place at the "EIONET Workshop on Soil" in September 2007 with representatives from DG ENV, EEA and JRC, together with representatives from the EIONET 'National Reference Centres for Soil' and members of the Steering Committee of the 'European Soil Bureau Network'. After the Brussels 2007 EIONET Workshop and a consecutive workshop in 2009, in which data needs by EEA and DG ENV were expressed, and in which a number of actions were planned. ESDAC embarked on two major data collections. One on 'soil organic carbon' and 'soil erosion' in 2009-2010, and one on 'contaminated sites' in 2011-2012, the latter aiming at making an update of the indicator "Progress in management of contaminated sites".

For the EIONET Data Collection on Contaminated Sites 2011, EIONET countries were asked to provide their updated information on various variables related to contaminated sites, following a questionnaire which was not very different from similar exercises conducted by the EEA before 2007. The draft report of the data collection exercise is used as input to the JRC Reference Report "Progress in the Management of Contaminated Sites in Europe".

The underlying data for the report are stored in the MS Excel file. Some data/information that arrived at JRC after the data collection deadline (for Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Latvia) are bundled in an additional Zip file.

The results of the exercise were also used in a scientific paper: Panagos, P., Van Liedekerke, M., Yigini, Y., Montanarella, L. 2013. Contaminated Sites in Europe: Review of the Current Situation Based on Data Collected through a European Network. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, vol. 2013, Article ID 158764, pp 1-11. doi:10.1155/2013/158764.

- (Period after 2014) : European Environment Agency (EEA) through work around the core set indicator "Progress in the management of contaminated sites in Europe"

 

For any problem / question / comment on this dataset, please contact ec-esdac@ec.europa.eu

Reference of source (Citations) :

Panagos, P., Van Liedekerke, M., Yigini, Y., Montanarella, L. 2013. Contaminated Sites in Europe: Review of the Current Situation Based on Data Collected through a European Network. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, vol. 2013, Article ID 158764

When making reference to the ESDAC

  • Panagos, P., Van Liedekerke, M., Borrelli, P., Köninger, J., Ballabio, C., Orgiazzi, A., Lugato, E., Liakos, L., Hervas, J., Jones, A.  Montanarella, L. 2022. European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(6), e13315. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13315
  • Panagos P., Van Liedekerke M., Jones A., Montanarella L., “European Soil Data Centre: Response to European policy support and public data requirements”; (2012) Land Use Policy, 29 (2), pp. 329-338. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.07.003
  • European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu, European Commission, Joint Research Centre