Given the priority inherently attached to the establishment of soil monitoring, to soil resilience, and to the management of contaminated sites, the implementation of this Directive shall be supported by Union financial programmes in accordance with their applicable rules and conditions.
The Commission shall assess any gap between the available Union funding and funding needs for supporting Member States in the implementation of this Directive, paying specific attention to environmental monitoring needs.
When implementing this Directive, the Commission and Member States shall be encouraged to make use of financial resources from appropriate sources, including Union, national, regional and local funds, to finance actions with a focus on soil protection, soil resilience and soil regeneration.
1. Member States shall report electronically the following data and information to the Commission and to the EEA every six years:
(a)
the data relating to, and the results of, the monitoring of soil health and soil health assessments carried out in accordance with Articles 6 to 10;
(b)
a trend analysis of soil health for the soil descriptors listed in Annex I, Parts A, B and C, and of soil sealing and of soil removal indicators listed in Annex I, Part D, in accordance with Article 10;
(c)
a summary of the progress on:
(i)
the support for soil health and soil resilience, in accordance with Article 11;
(ii)
the identification and investigation of potentially contaminated sites, the management of contaminated sites, and the registration of potentially contaminated sites and contaminated sites, in accordance with Articles 13 to 17;
Member States shall submit the first of the reports referred to in the first subparagraph by 17 June 2032.
2. Member States and the Commission, with the support of the EEA, shall ensure that there is a mutual exchange of the data and information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and that such exchange is effective and respects statistical confidentiality. Member States shall also ensure that the Commission and the EEA have timely and effective access to the data and information contained in the register referred to in Article 17.
3. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 2, if disclosure of certain data and information would adversely affect public security or national defence, Member States may decide not to report, exchange or grant access to such data and information.
4. By 17 March 2029, Member States shall provide the Commission with online access to the following:
(a)
an up-to-date list of their soil districts and soil units referred to in Article 4 and the information on their geographical extent;
(b)
an up-to-date list of the competent authorities referred to in Article 5.
5. Member States shall inform the Commission of the outcome of the establishment of the risk-based and stepwise approach referred to in Article 13, of the methodology laid down pursuant to Article 16(1), and of what they determine to constitute an unacceptable risk pursuant to Article 16(2).
6. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts establishing the format and the arrangements for submitting the data and information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22(2).
1. Member States shall make public the results generated by the monitoring of soil health carried out under Article 9 and the soil health assessments carried out in accordance with Article 10 in the form of aggregated data, and make public the register referred to in Article 17.
2. The Commission shall ensure that the public has access to the digital soil health data portal.
The Commission shall publish the list of the competent authorities as communicated by Member States in accordance with Article 19(4), point (b).
3. Disclosure of any data and information required under this Directive may be refused or restricted where the conditions laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2003/4/EC are fulfilled.
4. Where the Commission or Member States use confidential data to produce European statistics, they shall protect such data in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 223/2009.
The Commission or the EEA shall be required to obtain the explicit authorisation of the authority that collected the confidential data before their disclosure.
