EU: Forestry

United Kingdom
26/11/1999
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Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1545/1999 on the protection of forests against atmospheric pollution has been published in the Official Journal of the European Community. The Regulation requires Member States to carry out intensive and continuous surveillance of forest ecosystems on permanent observation plots. This surveillance should include the continuous inventory on the ground condition, the inventory of soil and folia condition and measure incremental changes, deposition rates, meteorology, soil solution sampling and analysis and ground vegetation assessment. The purpose of the Regulation is therefore to collect data and information on the evolution of a number of forest ecosystems in the Community. The observation plots are to be located in such a way that the more important forest species and more widespread growing conditions in the respective country are represented, minimum size of such a plot being 0.25 hectares.
(OJ L180, 15 July 1999)

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