Regulation on the method of assessing the pollution of the land surface.

The Regulation of the Minister of Environment, which is composed of 15 paragraphs and three Annexes, lays down the method of assessing the pollution of the land surface, including: (1) substances causing risk particularly important for the protection of the land surface, their acceptable levels in the soil, differentiated for individual soil properties and soil groups (specified in Annex 1); (2) detailed requirements regarding the determination of the acceptable levels of substance causing risk other than specified in point 1 in the soil, including the analysis of its impact on human healt and the state of the environment; (3) stages of identification of polluted areas; (4) activities that are likely to cause historical pollution of the land surface, with an indication of examples of pollution for these activities (Annex 2); (5) reference methodologies for soil and soil pollution testing (Annex 3); (6) specific requirements for the assessment of soil, land or groundwater pollution.