Procedure for monitoring measures to combat land degradation has been established

The government approved a regulation on the way of monitoring, assessing and preparing reporting forms on combating the degradation of lands and making public the results.

According to the regulation, the lands of agricultural, forest and water funds, as well as the lands destined to mining and other industrial companies, shall be subjected to monitoring of the processes of combating and preventing the degradation of lands.

Data on land degradation and land degradation control measures are regularly entered online into the Land Degradation Geoinformation System electronic map (by layers and attributes).

Based on the results of monitoring and soil surveys, the level of land degradation is assessed as follows:

land structure is not damaged;
damaged by anthropogenic impact;
not degraded; - is not degraded;
slightly degraded;;
moderately degraded; moderately degraded;
heavily degraded;
severely degraded.

Based on the results of the monitoring, if degradation is detected in the study area, a draft instruction will be developed and should be implemented within 5 working days.