This Ministerial Decree stipulates that land monitoring shall be part of the national environmental monitoring system. Land monitoring refers to a system for observing the state of land, changes in the structure and state of land resources and distribution of land by categories. It shall facilitate the collection, reporting, processing and analyzing of information in order to prevent negative processes and assess soil fertility conservation measures. Land monitoring shall focus on: (a) land degradation; (b) soil composition, structure and properties; (c) quantitative and qualitative characteristics of land and soil; and (d) forecasting changes to soil.
Belarus · 2007-03-28