In September 4^thto 12^th, 2004, in Freiburg (Albert-Ludvigs-Universität, Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition), Germany, and the EUROSOIL - 2004 international manifestation took place under the conditions of a large and remarkable participation of soil scientists, including 25 symposia.
One of these is Symposium 23 "Soil Monitoring". This looks like being of a particular interest because, while the soil quality monitoring was quite relatively recently accepted as a main specific section of soil science, it received increasing attention recognizing that it plays a very important role in the sustainable soil management activity policy.

So, after the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Stockholm, 1972), the governments paid an increasing importance to soil monitoring quality. As concerns Romania, in 1973, a Soil Pollution Control Laboratory was set up in the Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry (ICPA).

Then, in 1975, the Romanian Government set up a particular Act on the National Environmental Quality Monitoring System as a partner of GEMS. And, in 1977, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the Order No. 111 setting up the National Soil Quality Monitoring System under the responsibility of the Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry.

As the result of research activity, in 1983, a book was published in this field which, few years later, was translated in Russian too. In 1992, the National Soil Quality Monitoring System was substantially restructured and improved aiming at the integration of both agricultural and forestry soils, and, among others, few years later, as a result of a joint-venture project with FAO a National Atlas of Soil Quality in Romania was published. At present, the soil quality monitoring in Romania is a common and regular activity carried out by the county soil survey and soil testing offices under the coordination of ICPA.

Annual reports on the quality of soils in Romania, including recommendations for its protection and improvement, are submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development, and Ministry of Environment and Water Management, as well as to the National Commission for Statistics.

As concerns the progress and search in soil monitoring field, the data, information and opinions offered by the authors of papers presented in the above mentioned symposium lead to some conclusions, which are synthesized on the countries, as follows.

References

C.Rauta, S.Carstea. 1983. Prevenirea ºi Combaterea Poluarii Solului (Soil Pollution Control), Editura Ceres, Bucuresti. Romania. 283 p.

C. Rauta, S. Carstea. 1986. Borba s zagreazneniem pocivi (Soil Pollution Control). Agropromizdat. Moskva Soviet Union. 286 p.

ICPA/FAO. 2000. Monitoringul starii de calitate a solurilor din România/Soil Quality Monitoring in Romania. Editura GNP. Bucuresti, Romania.

G. Colinet, L. Bock. A Reference Soil System for the Monitoring of Soil Nutrient Status and Metallic Trace Elements Contamination in Agricultural Soils. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

WIDIATMAKA, Christian Walter, Phillipe Merot. Regional Scale Monitoring of Soil Organic Carbon Distribution in Brittany, France. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Henning Meesenburg, Heike Fortmann, Michael Mindrup, Josef Karl Meiwes. Environmental Monitoring of Forest Soils as Decision Support for Soil Protection, Environmental Policy and Forest Management. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

R Hindel., E. Gehrt. Geogenic Background Concentrations of Trace Elements in Soils of Germany as a Basis for Assessing Anthropogenic Input. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Anne Miehe, Frank Glante, Beate Werner, Gerd Huschek. The German Permanent Soil Monitoring Programme. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

P. Dreher, T. Nöltner, M. Schöttle: Soil Monitoring in Baden-Württemberg, Conception - Goals - Results. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

R. Schultz-Sternberg, V. Luthardt: Soil Monitoring as Base for Ecological Monitoring - an Integrated Monitoring Concept in the State of Brandenburg. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Helaina I. J. Black, S. J. Chaplow, R. Creamer, R. N. Parekh, D. E. Potter, G. Ainsworth, P. Rowland, J. Watkins, M. Hornung. Monitoring and Assessing Soil Quality within the British Countryside. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Ruben Sakrabani, John Hollis. Prediction of Changes in Soil Organic Carbon with Climate Using CENTURY 5 and ROTH C. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Judit Uveges Berenyi, Peter Marth, Bela Pirko. The Hungarian Soil Information and Monitoring System (TIM) and the new Challenges of the Thematic Strategy on Soil. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Paolo Giandon, Ialina Vinci. Project for an Italian Soil Monitoring Network for Environmental Purposes. The Experience of Veneto Region. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Alessandra Trinchera, Luigi Nisini, Anna Benedetti. Monitoring of Cadmium in Different Italian Compartments. In EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

D. McGrath, D. Fay. Towards a National Soils Database in the Republic of Ireland. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

D. Baize, A. Desaules, H. Ciesielski, N. Rossier, N. Proix. Long-Term Soil Monitoring Applied to Trace Metals: Analytical Methods and Problems. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.

Peter J. Loveland, P. Bellamy, I. R. Bradley. Soil Monitoring for the Real World. In: EUROSOIL 2004, September 4th to 12th. Freiburg, Germany.


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