Europe's New Soil Monitoring Law: A Milestone for Soil Health and Food Security
Europe has just crossed an important milestone for climate and food security.
On 23 October 2025, the European Parliament approved the Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive – the EU’s first law dedicated to soil health. The law enters into force on 15 December 2025 and requires Member States to regularly monitor and assess soil health across all land uses, including agricultural soils.
In practice, the Soil Monitoring Law means:
- Every Member State must define soil districts and soil units and build national monitoring networks.
- Soil health has to be tracked across multiple degradation aspects – including excess nutrient (nitrogen) loads.
- Governments must turn this data into actionable support for farmers and land managers, not just compliance reports.
At RedNOx, we are aligning our AgriNOx platform with this new framework.
AgriNOx combines ultra-sensitive (ppb) Nâ‚‚O and NO real-time sub-surface sensing with a data and analytics layer to help:
- Quantify nitrogen losses from fertiliser use at the plot and soil-unit level.
- Translate those measurements into soil-health and nitrogen-efficiency indicators that Member States can use in their monitoring and reporting.
- Give farmers and advisors decision support on how to cut nitrogen waste and greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining yields.
Our goal is simple: help turn this law from a policy milestone into measurable improvements in soil health, nitrogen efficiency, and farm profitability.