The newly proposed Soil Monitoring Law, part of the EU Soil Strategy for 2030, lays the foundation for a harmonized, science-based soil health monitoring system across all member states. It aims to bring soil protection on par with existing EU laws for water, air, and marine ecosystems.

What’s in the agreement?

• Standardized monitoring based on shared physical, chemical and biological soil descriptors (COM(2023) 416)

• A first EU-level step toward tracking PFAS and pesticide residues

• Soil health classes based on sustainable target values and operational trigger thresholds

• Legal principles to address land take, soil sealing and removal in spatial planning

• The overarching ambition: all EU soils healthy by 2050, aligned with the EU Green Deal and UN SDGs

Where Antonie makes the difference:

At Antonie, we go further than monitoring. We generate ecologically relevant insights, grounded in genuine field research into soil biodiversity, microbial life, and the complex interdependence of physical, chemical and biological processes in the soil.

Our AI-driven spatial intelligence platform empowers governments, researchers and land users to:

• Integrate high-resolution biodiversity indicators (e.g., nematodes, microbial richness, soil fauna)

• Analyze the impact of land use, crop choices, and inputs on soil food webs and carbon sequestration

• Model cause-and-effect relationships between soil health and ecosystem services

• Use dynamic mapping and prediction to make invisible soil processes visible

• Support localized nature-inclusive agriculture and regenerative land management

• Harmonize data for use in EU reporting, subsidy eligibility, and cross-border research

We don’t just measure; we connect to what matters for the soil.

This new law is a historic chance to make the living soil visible, accountable and restorable. Antonie provides the intelligence layer to make it work – from raw data to real resilience.