British Standards Institution

Sector: Sustainability

Overview: Under the Direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for and national Standards and the UK input to CEN/TC 444 and ISO/TC 190, developing standards in the fields of soil quality, soil pollution and contaminated soil.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (76)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/TS 25672	Soil quality — Determination of phenol oxidase (laccase) activity in soil using micro-well plates Categories: Unclassified documents Proposal begins :	Proposal
PD ISO/TS 25008-2	Soil quality — Responses of soil flora to environmental stresses — Part 2: Antioxidant defence enzymes activities Categories: Unclassified documents Drafting begins : 2025-08-15	Drafting
PD ISO/TS 25008-1	Soil quality — Responses of soil flora to environmental stresses — Part 1: Physiological parameters Categories: Unclassified documents Drafting begins : 2025-08-15	Drafting
PD CENISO/TS 16558-2:2015/Amd 1	PD CENISO/TS 16558-2:2015. Part 2: Determination of aliphatic and aromatic fractions of semi-volatile petroleum hydrocarbons using gas chromatography with flame ionization detection (GC/FID) - Amendment 1 Categories: Soils. Chemical characteristics Drafting begins : 2017-12-15	Drafting
NWI to adopt ISO/TS 25008-2	Soil quality — Measurement of sublethal effects of pollutants on soil flora. Part 2: Antioxidant defence enzymes activities Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2024-08-12	Proposal
NWI to adopt ISO/TS 25008-1	Soil quality — Measurement of sublethal effects of pollutants on soil flora. Part 1: Physiological parameters for stress evaluation Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2024-08-12	Proposal
New Work Item to adopt ISO 11465	(merger with EN 15934:2012) Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2024-01-02	Proposal
New Work Item Proposal -	Environmental solid matrices – Guidance for sample pretreatment Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2025-07-25	Proposal
ISO/TC 190/SC 7 N 550, ISO/NP 21268-5	Soil quality -- Leaching procedures for subsequent chemical and ecotoxicological testing of soil and soil-like materials -- Part 5: Part 5: Batch test with forced aerobic or anaerobic conditions Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules \| Measurement and Science \| Testing \| Testing. Environmental \| Environment \| Soil quality \| Soil quality. General \| Soils. Chemical characteristics Proposal begins : 2020-02-28	Proposal
ISO/TC 190/SC 4 N 901,	Guidance document on designing an interlaboratory trial for validation of biotests Categories: Information management \| Vocabularies \| Environment. Health protection. Safety \| Standardization. General rules \| Measurement and Science \| Testing \| Testing. Environmental \| Environment \| Environmental protection \| Water quality \| Soil quality Proposal begins : 2020-07-01	Proposal

Published (239)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/TS 5594:2022	Soil and water quality. Guidance document on designing an interlaboratory trial for validation of biotests Categories: Water. Examination. Biological properties \| Soils. Biological properties Published standard begins : 2022-11-29	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 22939:2019	Soil quality. Measurement of enzyme activity patterns in soil samples using fluorogenic substrates in micro-well plates Categories: Soils. Biological properties Published standard begins : 2019-08-14	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 22171:2023	Soil quality. Determination of potential cation exchange capacity (CEC) and exchangeable cations buffered at pH 7, using a molar ammonium acetate solution Categories: Soils. Chemical characteristics Published standard begins : 2024-01-09	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 20131-2:2018	Soil quality. Easy laboratory assessments of soil denitrification, a process source of N<sub>2</sub>O emissions. Assessment of the capacity of soils to reduce N<sub>2</sub>O Categories: Soils. Biological properties Published standard begins : 2018-07-13	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 20131-1:2018	Soil quality. Simple laboratory assessments for characterizing the denitrification in soil. Soil denitrifying enzymes activities Categories: Soils. Biological properties Published standard begins : 2018-07-13	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 17182:2014	Soil quality. Determination of some selected phenols and chlorophenols. Gas chromatographic method with mass spectrometric detection Categories: Soils. Chemical characteristics Published standard begins : 2014-12-03	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 17073:2013	Soil quality. Determination of trace elements in aqua regia and nitric acid digests. Graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry method (GFAAS) Categories: Soils. Chemical characteristics Published standard begins : 2013-10-17	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 16965:2013	Soil quality. Determination of trace elements using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) Categories: Soils. Chemical characteristics Published standard begins : 2013-10-28	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 16727:2013	Soil quality. Determination of mercury. Cold vapour atomic fluorescence spectrometry (CVAFS) Categories: Soils. Chemical characteristics Published standard begins : 2013-11-08	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 13907:2012	Soil quality. Determination of nonylphenols (NP) and nonylphenol mono- and diethoxylates. Method by gas chromatography with mass selective detection (GC-MS) Categories: Soils. Chemical characteristics Published standard begins : 2012-11-20	Published standard

Withdrawn (141)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/TS 16751:2018	Soil quality. Environmental availability of non-polar organic compounds. Determination of the potential bioavailable fraction and the non-bioavailable fraction using a strong adsorbent or complexing agent Categories: Soils. Biological properties Withdrawn begins : 2020-06-29	Withdrawn
PD CEN/TS 17883:2022	Environmental characterization of leachates from waste and soil using reproductive and toxicological gene expression in Daphnia magna Categories: Wastes. General \| Water. Examination. Biological properties \| Soil quality. Other Withdrawn begins : 2024-07-19	Withdrawn
PD CEN/TS 16675:2014	Characterisation of waste. Test methods for the determination of the monolithic status of waste Categories: Wastes. Solid Withdrawn begins : 2018-08-31	Withdrawn
PD CEN/TS 15864:2012	Characterisation of waste. Leaching behaviour test for basic characterisation. Dynamic monolithic leaching test with continuous leachant renewal under conditions relevant for specified scenario(s) Categories: Wastes. Solid Withdrawn begins : 2015-12-18	Withdrawn
PD CEN/TS 15863:2012	Characterisation of waste. Leaching behaviour test for basic characterisation. Dynamic monolithic leaching test with periodic leachant renewal, under fixed test conditions Categories: Wastes. Solid Withdrawn begins : 2015-04-07	Withdrawn
PD CEN ISO/TS 29843-2:2014	Soil quality. Determination of soil microbial diversity. Method by phospholipid fatty acid analysis (PLFA) using the simple PLFA extraction method Categories: Soils. Biological properties Withdrawn begins : 2014-11-14	Withdrawn
DD ISO/TS 29843-2:2011	Soil quality. Determination of soil microbial diversity. Method by phospholipid fatty acid analysis (PLFA) using the simple PLFA extraction method Categories: Soils. Biological properties Withdrawn begins : 2014-10-14	Withdrawn
DD ISO/TS 29843-1:2010	Soil quality. Determination of soil microbial diversity. Method by phospholipid fatty acid analysis (PLFA) and phospholipid ether lipids (PLEL) analysis Categories: Soils. Biological properties Withdrawn begins : 2014-11-17	Withdrawn
DD ISO/TS 22939:2010	Soil quality. Measurement of enzyme activity patterns in soil samples using fluorogenic substrates in micro-well plates Categories: Soils. Biological properties Withdrawn begins : 2019-08-14	Withdrawn
DD ISO/TS 17924:2007	Soil quality. Assessment of human exposure from ingestion of soil and soil material. Guidance on the application and selection of physiologically based extraction methods for the estimation of the human bioaccessibility/bioavailability of metals in soil Categories: Soils. Biological properties Withdrawn begins : 2018-10-11	Withdrawn

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Committee members

Nominating organizations

Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists
British Geological Survey
British Geomembrane Association
Cardiff University
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Committee Manager
EIC – Microplastics Expert
EIC (Energy Industries Council)
Environment Agency
Environmental Industries Commission Ltd
Environmental Services Association
Geological Society - Contaminated Land Specialist Group
Institution of Environmental Sciences
Scottish Contaminated Land Forum
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Vice Chair
Water UK

Liaisons with other committees

Chair - EH/4/-/6
Expert - H&S aspects of site investigation
Individual Capacity - CEN/TC 444/WG 1 Expert
Individual Capacity - Soil Quality - Guidance on sustainable remediation
Individual Capacity - Sustainable Remediation
Liaison - B/546
UK Expert - ISO/TC 190/SC 1/ WG 3
UK Expert - ISO/TC 190/SC 3

BSI roles

Committee Chair
Committee Chair and liaison – AW/20

Standards Development

EH/4 - Soil quality

Committee standards activity