Soil remediation and soil sealing

The conference objective is to highlight the importance of tackling soil contamination at an early stage and the opportunities that that offers to the European remediation industry. Moreover, it will underline how addressing contaminated sites and brownfields can be helpful in limiting land take and soil sealing, which continues in many parts of Europe at alarming rates often at the expense of fertile agricultural lands. At the conference the Commission will present its Soil Sealing Guidelines, which are being finalised. These guidelines are part of the Soil Thematic Strategy and will be instrumental in achieving the land take target proposed in the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe (COM(2011) 571). More information on the conference, the draft programme and the on-line registration form are available under http://ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/public_events_en.htm