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

Figure Created 23 Nov 2022 Published 13 Dec 2022 Last modified 13 Dec 2022

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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
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: Eionet NRC Soil
Figure type:: Graph

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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.

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