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SOIL A= ction (JRC) is making an effort to make Soil Legacy data and information av= ailable for the public users. In that regard, the European Digital Archive = of Soil Maps (EuDASM) has been updated with new Metadata and Maps from 20 c= ountries: Azerbaijan (3), Belarus (8), Belgium (19), Croatia (6), Cyprus (1= 7), Czech Republic (12), Estonia (1), France (32), Georgia (2), Hungary (63= ), Italy(76), Kazakhstan (6),= Moldova (1), Norway (19), Poland (21), Portugal (33), Romania (22), Serbia= (3), Slovakia (8), Ukraine (3). The whole EuDASM collection includes aroun= d 6.000 maps from 141 countries (available for free download). The impact of EuDASM digital archive can be found in the followin= g published = article.

The European Commission invites you to participa= te in a two-day high-level conference on "Soil remediation and soil se= aling" that it will host in Brussels on 10th and 11th May 2012. The conference, which will be opene= d by the Environment Commissioner, Janez Potočnik, has the objective t= o highlight the importance of tackling soil contamination at an early stage= and the opportunities that this offers to the European remediation industr= y. Moreover, it will underline how addressing contaminated sites and brownf= ields can be helpful in limiting land take and soil sealing, which continue= s in many parts of Europe at alarming rates, often at the expense of fertil= e agricultural lands. In this context, the Commission will present recently= published Soil Sealing Guidelines (http= ://ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/sealing_guidelines.htm) that aim to spread best practice acro= ss Member States. The conference will be closed by a panel gathering, among= others, Commissioner Potočnik, Agriculture Commissioner Cioloş a= nd the Chair of the Environment Committee in the European Parliament, Matth= ias Groote, discussing 'Land take, soil remediation and food production: th= e role of the EU's policies'.

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Under the Environment Policy & Governance co= mponent and for the policy area 'Soil', the Commission invites: demonstrati= on activities at regional, provincial or municipal level to limit, mitigate= or compensate for soil sealing; expanding the knowledge base concerning soil degradation processes; and= developing and implementing land use practices and techniques, particularl= y in farming and forestry production processes, which protect and improve t= he status of soil. Under the Information and Communication component, the C= ommission invites communication actions and awareness raising campaigns to,= inter alia, increase the awareness and knowledge about the importance of s= oil and soil biodiversity and its many ecological functions, and sustainabl= e land use. Deadline: 26/9/2012.

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Development of software models for predicting environmental concentration= s of plant protection products in soil (Tender)

The objective of this tender procedure is to dev= elop a single software tool for calculating the predicted environmental con= centrations of substances and their transformation products in soil in supp= ort of an EFSA Guidance Document for predicting environmental concentration= s of PPPs in soil. The software tool will be based on an analytical model f= or which both the concepts and the <= /span>mathematical equations are described in the Opinion containing the sc= ience for scenario selection and scenario parameterisation for predicting e= nvironmental concentrations of plant protection products in soil. Deadline: 18/6/2012.

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SOIL Action Newsletter

No 40 (April 2012)

Invitation & Draft Agenda:=

http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/Fut= ure_events/invitation_Soil_remediation_sealing2012.pdf

http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/Future_events/SoilC= onferenceProgramme.pdf

2012 call for proposals under the LIFE+ Regulation (

http:/= /eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/utilities/calls/index.cfm