The vineyards of the European Union are a heritage that we must preserve and the health of the soil is the fundamental basis for their long-term sustainability.

The adoption of a European law establishing a soil monitoring framework will be an important step to recognize the concept of soil health”, declared Mauricio González-Gordon, president of the Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins (Ceev), an organization that represents industrial and commercial wineries in the European Union, a territory that “has more than 3.2 million hectares of vineyards distributed in very different pedoclimatic areas throughout the continent.

Considering this diversity, the flexibility proposed to adopt measures suited to the regional and local specificities of the soils is a necessity for the correct management of our vineyards”. On the other hand, according to Ignacio Sánchez Recarte, general secretary of Ceev