RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 KubĂ­k, Ladislav T1 The future of soil protection strategy at the level of European Union at the filed of soil monitoring JF Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis YR 2014 VO 53 IS 1 SP 103 OP 110 DO 10.11118/actaun200553010103 UL https://acta.mendelu.cz/artkey/acu-200501-0012.php AB European Union deals long with problems of the two components of environment the air and the water. So far soil wasn't in the main scope of the European Union. The European Union deal now with problems of soil, where we can find question of the soil monitoring. This issue was solve in the framework of the Working group on soil monitoring (WG). The recommendations from the WG are base for deciding of the European Commission, which will have interest to formulate new soil directive. The main tasks of the WG were to review of existing soil monitoring systems, to specify basic soil parameters, indicators, to define soil parameters for each soil threats and to harmonize future soil monitoring activity and soil data.