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EH/4 - Soil quality

Sector: Sustainability

Categories: Waste. Equipment and installations. Disposal and treatment. | Water. Examination. Chemical substances | Soils. Chemical characteristics | Water. Examination. Biological properties | Domestic and commercial equipment. Miscellaneous | Physicochemical analysis | Textiles. General | Measurement. Vibration and shock | Wastes. Solid | IT terminal and other peripheral equipment | Soils. Hydrological properties | Steels. Pipes and tubes | Piping systems | Resistors. Fixed | Wastes. Other | External sewage systems | Water quality | Non-metalliferous minerals | Radiation protection | Soils. Physical properties | Equipment. Winter sports | Soils. Examination. General | Chemical analysis | Drawing equipment | Fuels. Solid | Industrial gases | Water. Sewage | Hand-operated tools | Fire-resistance. Building materials and elements | Microbiology. Water | Belt drives. Components | Wastes. Liquid | Ignitability and burning behaviour. Materials and products | Domestic and commercial equipment. Entertainment. Sports | Soil quality. Other | Audio systems | Soil quality | Construction technology | Measurement. Radiation | Particle size analysis. Sieving | Metalliferous minerals. Other | Inorganic chemicals | Wastes. General | Water supply | Mining and quarrying | Environmental economics | Building protection. Other | Measuring instruments | Integrated circuits. Microelectronics | Essential oils | Laboratory | Testing. Environmental | Construction materials. General | Pollution, pollution control and conservation | Soil quality. General | Testing. Non-destructive | Water. Natural resources | Writing and transliteration | Soils. Biological properties | Wastes | Metalliferous metals | Document imaging applications | Environment. Health protection. Safety | Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation.

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 (72)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
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
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
ISO/TC 190/SC 3 N 1160, ISO/NP 13914 Soil, treated biowaste and sludge - Determination of dioxins and furans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls by gas chromatography with high-resolution mass selective...

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Environment | Wastes | Wastes. Solid | Wastes. Other | Soil quality | Soils. Chemical characteristics | Soil quality. Other

Proposal begins : 2020-07-29 		Proposal
ISO/TC 190/SC 3 N 1133, ISO/NP 22171 Soil quality - Determination of potential cation exchange capacity (CEC) and exchangeable cations buffered at pH 7, using a molar ammonium acetate solution

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Environment | Soil quality | Soil quality. General | Soils. Examination. General | Soil quality. Other

Proposal begins : 2020-03-26 		Proposal
ISO/TC 190/SC 3 N 1132, ISO/NP 5120 Soil quality -- Determination of perchlorate in soil using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LCMS)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Environment | Wastes | Soil quality | Soil quality. General | Soils. Examination. General | Soils. Chemical characteristics | Soil quality. Other

Proposal begins : 2020-03-25 		Proposal
ISO/TC 190 N 623 , ISO/NP 4974 Soil quality - Guidance on soil temperature measurement

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Measurement and Science | Metrology and measurement | Measuring instruments. Temperature | Environment | Soil quality | Soil quality. General | Soils. Examination. General | Soil quality. Other

Proposal begins : 2020-02-06 		Proposal
Published (236)
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 (140)
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