Problems Around Soil and Waste: II Horizontal Aspects of Sampling

Some 35 participants attended the event, which was hosted in facilities of the IES. The workshop's program was organised in a way to leave a possibly large room for discussion among the participants. To this end, a limited number of key notes addressed the issues of sampling an d standardisation, theoretical considerations of sampling and case-studies with elements of comparative sampling. Besides, two parallel group sessions were organised to address in three discussions groups the technical, practical and policy aspects of sampling in relationship to EU policies the summaries of this discussion session can be found at hte end of this report.