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TC 190

Soil quality

• Secretariat: NEN
• Secretary: Ms. Saskia M. Schulten
• Chairperson: Mr. Frank P.J. Lamé (Netherlands) until end 2010
• Creation date: 1985

• Work programme
  (drafts and new work items of TC 190)

• Business plan (TC)
• Working area on ISOTC

Scope:

Standardization in the field of soil quality, including classification, definition of terms, sampling of soils, measurement and reporting of soil characteristics.

Excluded:

• limits of acceptability for soil pollution;
• civil engineering aspects (as dealt with by ISO /TC 182).

Total number of published ISO standards related to the TC and its SCs:	117
Number of published ISO standards under the direct responsibility of TC 190:	13
Participating countries:	24
Observing countries:	34

ISO committees in liaison:

TC 134, TC 146, TC 147, TC 182

Organizations in liaison:

AOAC, APO, EC, FAO, ICID, IUSS, OIML, WHO-ECEH, WMO

Subcommittees/Working Groups:

Subcommittee/Working Group	Title
TC 190/SC 1	Evaluation of criteria, terminology and codification
TC 190/SC 2	Sampling
TC 190/SC 3	Chemical methods and soil characteristics
TC 190/SC 4	Biological methods
TC 190/SC 5	Physical methods - STANDBY
TC 190/SC 7	Soil and site assessment

Meeting calendar

* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

Month		Location
2010093000200000000003rd Quarter 2010		(Poland)	**	TC 190
201112310040000000000Month unknown 2011		(Australia)	**	TC 190
201212310040000000000Month unknown 2012		(Kenya)	**	TC 190