Table of contents: I. The JRC Workshop on strengthening research networks in south-eastern Europe in support of soil protection policies ________ 5 I.1 Backgrounds___________________________________________________________________________________ 5 I.2 Day#1: Overview of soil information and soil protection ________________________________________________ 6 I.3 Day#2: Soil Data Centre and Digital Soil Mapping_____________________________________________________ 8 I.4 Conclusions ___________________________________________________________________________________ 9 II. Land and soil resources of Albania: current problems and future trends___________________________________________ 11 II.1 Introduction __________________________________________________________________________________ 11 II.2 Land Tenure and Agrarian Reform ________________________________________________________________ 11 II.3 Soil Mapping and Soil Classification_______________________________________________________________ 12 II.4 Soil fertility trends and management _______________________________________________________________ 15 II.5 Land Use ____________________________________________________________________________________ 16 II.6 Land Evaluation and Soil Suitability _______________________________________________________________ 18 II.7 Natural resources conservation and management _____________________________________________________ 19 II.8 Trends and Development Perspectives _____________________________________________________________ 21 III. Land and hydrological potential of Bosnia and Herzegovina ___________________________________________________ 25 III.1 Agriculture production zones_____________________________________________________________________ 25 III.2 Preferential land resources of B&H ________________________________________________________________ 27 III.3 Hydrographic characteristics _____________________________________________________________________ 28 III.4 Hydrological balance ___________________________________________________________________________ 29 IV. Overview of soil information and soil protection policies in Bulgaria____________________________________________ 33 IV.1 Soil-resource-related institutions in Bulgaria_________________________________________________________ 33 IV.2 Sources of soil information ______________________________________________________________________ 34 IV.3 Soil studies ___________________________________________________________________________________ 34 IV.4 Application of soil information ___________________________________________________________________ 37 IV.5 Information for soil physical and chemical degradation status ___________________________________________ 39 IV.6 Integration in European soil databases projects _______________________________________________________ 39 IV.7 Soil protection policy ___________________________________________________________________________ 39 V. Croatian Soil Information System within the Environment Information System ____________________________________ 43 V.1 Introduction __________________________________________________________________________________ 43 V.2 Developed databases ___________________________________________________________________________ 45 V.3 Croatian Soil information system (CROSIS)_________________________________________________________ 47 V.4 Established databases ___________________________________________________________________________ 48 V.5 Conclusion ___________________________________________________________________________________ 52 VI. Overview of soil information and soil protection policies in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia_______________ 55 VI.1 The general context ____________________________________________________________________________ 55 VI.2 Threats against soils ____________________________________________________________________________ 57 VI.3 Policy _______________________________________________________________________________________ 61 VI.4 Environmental management and access to information_________________________________________________ 61 VI.5 Outlook______________________________________________________________________________________ 62 VII. Overview of soil information and soil protection polices in Greece _____________________________________________ 63 VII.1 1 Introduction _________________________________________________________________________________ 63 VII.2 Soil Information Systems (SIS) ___________________________________________________________________ 66 VII.3 Use of Data Bases and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) ________________________________________ 67 VII.4 Soil protection polices in Greece __________________________________________________________________ 70 VII.5 Conclusions and recommendations ________________________________________________________________ 72 VIII. Overview of soil information and soil protection policies in Hungary __________________________________________ 77 VIII.1 Introduction __________________________________________________________________________________ 77 VIII.2 Hungarian Soil Information and Monitoring System (TIM) _____________________________________________ 78 VIII.3 Institutional organization of soil information ________________________________________________________ 83 VIII.4 Conclusions __________________________________________________________________________________ 84 IX. Overview of soil information and policies in Serbia __________________________________________________________ 87 IX.1 Geographic Characteristics ______________________________________________________________________ 87 IX.2 Soil Survey ___________________________________________________________________________________ 88 IX.3 Soil Databases ________________________________________________________________________________ 91 IX.4 Soil monitoring________________________________________________________________________________ 95 IX.5 Legal and institutional framework for soil management ________________________________________________ 96 IX.6 Outlook______________________________________________________________________________________ 97 X. Overview of soil information and soil protection policies in Slovenia ___________________________________________ 101 X.1 Slovenia in general____________________________________________________________________________ 101 X.2 Soil legislation in Slovenia______________________________________________________________________ 103 X.3 Procedure of soil pollution assessment ____________________________________________________________ 106 X.4 Data availability ______________________________________________________________________________ 108 X.5 Future actions ________________________________________________________________________________ 109 XI. Danube basin Soil database ____________________________________________________________________________ 111 XI.1 1 Introduction ________________________________________________________________________________ 111 XI.2 3 Structure of Georeferenced Soil database _________________________________________________________ 113 XI.3 Structure of Danube basin soil database ___________________________________________________________ 114 XI.4 Soils in the Danube river basin __________________________________________________________________ 116 XII. SPADE2: The soil profile analytical database for Europe ____________________________________________________ 121 XII.1 Background SPADE-1 _________________________________________________________________________ 121 XII.2 SPADE-2 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 122 XII.3 SPADE-2 data structure ________________________________________________________________________ 125 XIII. Digital Soil Mapping at work: interpolation of soil parameters for the Danube river basin _________________________ 129 XIII.1 Backgrounds_________________________________________________________________________________ 129 XIII.2 Methods and materials _________________________________________________________________________ 130 XIII.3 Project phases________________________________________________________________________________ 134 XIII.4 Preliminary results ____________________________________________________________________________ 135 XIII.5 Discussion __________________________________________________________________________________ 136 XIV. Topographic data for Digital Soil Mapping applications in Croatia ___________________________________________ 139 XIV.1 Fundamentals of mapping ______________________________________________________________________ 139 XIV.2 Topographic data acquisition methods_____________________________________________________________ 141 XIV.3 Digital topographic data products ________________________________________________________________ 143 XIV.4 Topographic data products in Croatia _____________________________________________________________ 145 XIV.5 Conclusion __________________________________________________________________________________ 147 XV. Methods for creating Functional Soil Databases and applying Digital Soil Mapping with SAGA GIS_________________ 149 XV.1 Introduction _________________________________________________________________________________ 149 XV.2 SAGA GIS as a comprehensive tool for Digital Soil Mapping __________________________________________ 151 XV.3 Process parameterisation and terrain parameters _____________________________________________________