Article 3 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2043

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Article 3Evidence regarding legacy effects in organic soils in Member States with exceptionally high proportion of organic soils#

1.The threshold for the determination of the exceptionally high proportion of organic soils, compared to the Union average, shall be the 85th percentile of the frequency distribution of the proportions of organic soils compared to the total managed land area in each Member State. The data determining the proportion of organic soils in managed land area is set out in the Annex.

2.Member States with an exceptionally high proportion of organic soils determined pursuant to paragraph 1 shall identify, in a geographically explicit manner, areas affected by the legacy effects of past management practices that occurred before 2013.

3.Evidence corroborating the identification of areas referred to in paragraph 2 shall be verifiable and shall include the following elements:

(a)the method used, the input data used and the outcome of the identification referred to in paragraph 2;

(b)a description of the past management practices referred to in paragraph 2, including the timeframe of their application, accompanied by evidence proving their occurrence;

(c)a description of the efforts to reverse the trend of excess emissions generated in the areas identified pursuant to paragraph 2.

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aridity class
means any of the following categories in which areas are classified according to the aridity index:
aridity index
means the ratio between precipitation and potential evapotranspiration;
organic soil
means a soil either fulfilling the definition based on approved national standards, used for reporting under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or, where there are no such standards, using criteria listed in 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines (Annex 3A.5.