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Project: LIFE08 ENV IT 000428 SOILPRO MONITORING FOR SOIL PROTECTION

Project: LIFE08 ENV IT 000428 SOILPRO MONITORING FOR SOIL PROTECTION. LOCALIZATION: Sicilia e Peloponneso. BUDGET:. Total cost : 1,450,192.00. Co-financing UE: 49,83%. DURATION: start: 01/01/10 - end: 31/12/13. PARTECIPANTS:. Coordinator beneficiary: CRA-ABP.

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Project: LIFE08 ENV IT 000428 SOILPRO MONITORING FOR SOIL PROTECTION

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  1. Project: LIFE08 ENV IT 000428 SOILPRO MONITORING FOR SOIL PROTECTION LOCALIZATION: Sicilia e Peloponneso BUDGET: Total cost : 1,450,192.00 Co-financing UE: 49,83% DURATION: start: 01/01/10 - end: 31/12/13 PARTECIPANTS: Coordinator beneficiary: CRA-ABP Associated: NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS; REGION OF PELOPONNESOS; REGIONE SICILIANA

  2. BACKGROUND • Soil is a non-renewable natural resource • It performs crucial ecological, social and economic functions for human activities and ecosystems survival • Soils are being increasingly degraded or irreversibly lost across the EU • Estimated costs of soil degradation reach up to €38/$50 billions per year, but damage to soil ecological functions is excluded • Costs of soil degradation are mainly borne by society at large and not by the land user

  3. Soil degradation processes

  4. Main Policy Areas • 6th Environmental Action Program (EU Soil Thematic Strategy) • Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) • Climate Change Policy (Post-Kyoto debate, LULUCF) • Energy Policy (Renewable Energies Directive) • Biodiversity (Nature) Protection Policy (EU Biodiversity Strategy) • Water Protection Policy (WFD, Groundwater Directive) • Forest Protection Policy (Forest FOCUS, ICP Forest) • Regional Policies (INTERREG) • Food Safety (PPR Registration, EFSA) • Food Security (FAO) • Development Policy (ACP-Observatory) • Waste Policy (Biowaste Directive, Sewage Sludge Directive) • …etc

  5. Impact Assessment at European CommissionStandardised procedure, mandatory for all policies

  6. Resource Efficiency RoadmapCOM(2011 571, 20.9.2011) • By 2020, • water abstraction stays, as a rule, below 20% of available renewable water resources. • Maintain and enhance ecosystems and their services by establishing green infrastructure and restoring at least 15% of degraded ecosystems. • Annual land take (i.e. the increase of artificial land) does not exceed 800 km² per year at the EU level. • The area of land in the EU that is subject to soil erosion of more than 10 tonnes per hectare per year should be reduced by at least 25%. • Soil organic matter levels do not decrease overall and increase for soils currently with less than 3.5% organic matter.

  7. OBJECTIVES The SOILPRO project has the overall objective of halting soil degradation in line with the Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection. It will develop a web-based application tool (Soil Monitoring Software, SMS) that can support local and regional authorities and Member States in their efforts to identify and assess areas at risk, as well as to monitor the effectiveness of soil protection measures

  8. MAIN DELIVERABLES, ACTIONS AND RESPONSABLES Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

  9. OTHERS IMPORTANT DELIVERABLES, ACTIONS AND RESPONSABLES

  10. State of the art • Activities, financial and administrative reports have at least 6 months of delay • We must set the next plan of activities and budget expenditures so to reach the 150% threshold to get the second instalment • We must decide whether to ask for an extension of the project

  11. Critical issues • SOILPRO is much articulated and complex: many actions and many deliverables. There are few single responsibilities, but many shared responsibilities for a single action • There is the need for every partner to find one dedicated and reference person (in addition to the partner leader) to follow the actions and act as contact point for the other partners • There is also the need for every partner to find a reference person for the administrative issues

  12. Have a nice meeting!

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