* WORK

* PEOPLE

* ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS

* INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

WORK:

The TCB is an independent committee based on the soil protection act. The committee makes recommendations on the technical and scientific aspects of soil protection. The TCB is generally consulted by the Ministery of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment and the Ministery of Agriculture, Nature management and Fisheries. Because of the wide circulation of the committee's advice, other public bodies and engineering companies benefit indirectly from the work and the advice is thus useful for a much broader public. Besides its advisory capacity, the TCB has an informative function. Not only civil servants and politicians but also those active in education and the commercial sector increasingly consider the TCB as part of their information network. The TCB also functions as a platform for discussion. Scientists from the Netherlands and abroad know where to find the committee if they want to exchange information on new developments in the field.

PEOPLE:

The TCB consists of (11) leading experts well grounded in the areas involved in the technical and scientific aspects of soil protection such as hydrology, cultivation techniques, soil science, toxicology and ecology. The pounding heart of the TCB is its secretariat, a group of (5) experts responsible for all the groundwork of the committee.  

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH:


* Presentation Spatial Planning Subsurface

* Presentation Soil Sealing

* Ecosystem Services & RA 2009

* Advisory Report on the effects of soil sealing, A048(2009)

* Presentation ConSoil 2008 'Ecosystem services'

* Advisory Report ETBE Standards, A040(2008)e

* Advisory Report MTBE Standards, S45(2007)e

* Advice on phosphate saturation in agricultural soils, S35(2007)e

* Advisory Report Effects of biomass production for energy on soil quality in the Netherlands, S07(2007)e

* Recommendations on the assessment of the environmental aspects of wood preservatives, S63(2006)e

* Recommendations for groundwater treshold values for the Water Framework Directive, S51(2005)e         

* Advisory Report on the more sustainable use of agricultural land, Code A36(2005)e

* Advisory Report Towards a more ecologically sustainable land use, A33(2003)e

* Suggestions for River Basin Management, A30(2001)e , This advisory report and the report TCB R14(2001) belong together.

* Groundwater in the Water Framework Directive; Advisory Report of the Groundwater Working Group to the TCB

* TCB S33(2000), Recommendations on the role and significance of soil ecosystems in relation to the NEPP4 and the Fifth Policy Document on Spatial Planning

* "Advisory framework for ecological input'. Advisory framework for ecological input in the policy areas of soil protection, biodiversity and land-use planning in relation to NEPP-4 and the fifth policy document on spatial planning This advisory report was drawn up at the Soil Protection Technical Committee (TCB) meeting on 15 November 2000. TCB A29(2000), Advisory Framework for Ecological Input, A29(2000)e

* "Agriculture and the Environment; Minerals, Manure and Measures", F.B. de Walle en J. Sevenster, Promikron BV, Delft, ISBN 0-7923-4794-3, 1998. This book focusses on the negative consequences of overfertilization for the quality of water, both surface water and ground water, in combination with the agricultural industry and regulations in the most important European countries and the USA. The TCB took the initiative for the reconnaissance study, on which this book is based, to contribute to the discussion on agricultural-mineral policy in The Netherlands and abroad. 

 * Report Ecological Risks of Soil Pollution; Ecological Building Blocks for Risk Assessment, R07(1997)

 * Rapport Contaminated land policies in some industrialized countries, R02(1993)

• CLARINET - Contaminated Land Rehabilitation Network for Environmental Technologies,
• CARACAS - Concerted Action on Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites in the European Union