Potentially contaminated sites in the EU, as registered in national inventories

The figure presents the trend in the number of registered potentially contaminated sites in 2006, 2011 and 2016.

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Methodology

EIONET questionnaires 2006, 2011, 2016 (Thematic Group Soil, Working Group Soil Contamination)

Units

Number of registered potentially contaminated sites

Additional information

The underlaying statistics for the 2016 questionnaire were reviewed in 2022 (EIONET)
23 countries reported in 2016, 18 in 2006. Since 2006, 6 new countries have contributed to the EEA indicator; one country omitted 2016. All new countries have only very initial national registers or inventories. The trend is largely explained by new sites which were detected and added to existing registers.

Potentially contaminated sites in the EU, as registered in national inventories

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