SIST EN ISO 11074:2025

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2025
Nadomešča:
SIST EN ISO 11074:2015
SIST EN ISO 11074:2015/A1:2020
Kakovost tal - Slovar (ISO 11074:2025)
Soil quality - Vocabulary (ISO 11074:2025)
Bodenbeschaffenheit - Wörterbuch (ISO 11074:2025)
Qualité du sol - Vocabulaire (ISO 11074:2025)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN ISO 11074:2025
ICS:
01.040.13 Okolje. Varovanje zdravja. Environment. Health
Varnost (Slovarji) protection. Safety
(Vocabularies)
13.080.01 Kakovost tal in pedologija na Soil quality and pedology in
splošno general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN ISO 11074
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
March 2025
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 01.040.13; 13.080.01 Supersedes EN ISO 11074:2015, EN ISO
11074:2015/A1:2020
English Version
Soil quality - Vocabulary (ISO 11074:2025)
Qualité du sol - Vocabulaire (ISO 11074:2025) Bodenbeschaffenheit - Wörterbuch (ISO 11074:2025)
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 3 February 2025.

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European foreword . 3

European foreword
This document (EN ISO 11074:2025) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 190 "Soil
quality" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 444 “Environmental characterization of
solid matrices” the secretariat of which is held by NEN.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by September 2025, and conflicting national standards
shall be withdrawn at the latest by September 2025.
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This document supersedes EN ISO 11074:2015.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards
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According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the
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Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the
United Kingdom.
Endorsement notice
The text of ISO 11074:2025 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 11074:2025 without any modification.

International
Standard
ISO 11074
Third edition
Soil quality — Vocabulary
2025-03
Qualité du sol — Vocabulaire
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
Annex A (informative) Relationships between sampling operations .60
Bibliography .62
Index .64

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ISO 11074:2025(en)
Foreword
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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 190, Soil quality, in collaboration with
the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/TC 444, Environmental
characterization of solid matrices, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO
and CEN (Vienna Agreement).
This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition (ISO 11074:2015), which has been technically
revised. It also incorporates the Amendment ISO 11074:2015/Amd 1:2020.
The main changes are as follows:
— terminological entries have been reorganised with all the terms and definitions placed in Clause 3 in
alphabetical order;
— terms that have different definitions depending on the context have been grouped, and the domain has
been added in angle brackets to differentiate them.
Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A
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ISO 11074:2025(en)
Introduction
This document defines soil quality terms. The previous editions (ISO 11074:2015 and ISO 11074/Amd 1:2020)
presented terms and definitions in separate clauses to differentiate the terms about e.g. sampling,
remediation. This became more and more artificial, since soil quality experts with different expertise need
to work closely together and there is a greater need for one term list instead of multiple ones, where experts
first need to find out in which clause a specific term is located. In this edition, all the terms are included in
Clause 3.
For some terms, there are different definitions, depending on the context. These terms are presented after
each other, with the differentiating domains between brackets: . Often these are a general domain
and a specific domain, resulting in different definitions.
Though the terms apply to all other ISO/TC 190 soil quality standards, this document does not cover all the
terms used in ISO/TC 190 soil quality standards.
New and revised standards are published continuously though time. The revision periods of soil quality
standards differ. That means that definitions of the same terms can be different in specific soil quality
standard and in this document.
NOTE For general terms relating to quality, see ISO 9000.

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International Standard ISO 11074:2025(en)
Soil quality — Vocabulary
1 Scope
This document defines terms used in the field of soil quality.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
ISO and IEC maintain terminology databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https:// www .iso .org/ obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at https:// www .electropedia .org/
3.1
abandoned hazardous site
hazardous site (3.201) left by the owner or other responsible party in unmanaged condition
3.2
abandoned industrial site
industrial site (3.443) left by the owner or other responsible party in unmanaged condition
3.3
abandoned potentially hazardous site
site (3.443), left by the owner or other responsible party in unmanaged condition, whose history leads to a
suspicion that it can be hazardous
3.4
abandoned waste disposal site
waste disposal site (3.443) left by the owner or other responsible party in unmanaged condition
3.5
abiotic decomposition
decomposition (3.113) by physical and/or chemical processes (e.g. photolysis, hydrolysis (3.211), oxidation
(3.305), and reduction (3.373))
3.6
abiotic degradation
degradation (3.116) by physical and/or chemical processes
3.7
above-ground sampling
process of taking samples (3.398) from material that has been deposited on the ground surface
EXAMPLE Samples are taken from a stockpile (3.496) (including bulk volumes (3.64) of excavated soils (3.154)),
deposit of waste or embankment (see ISO 18400-104:2018).

ISO 11074:2025(en)
3.8
accumulation
increase of the concentration (3.86) of a substance in soil due to the fact that the substance input (3.508) is
larger than the substance output (3.509)
Note 1 to entry: Substance output includes material which is degraded.
3.9
active protective measure
process designed, for example, to control groundwater (3.191) migration or gas migration (3.178)
EXAMPLE Pumped water extraction or gas extraction system.
3.10
active soil gas sampling
sampling (3.410) by extracting a certain volume of soil gas (3.454)
3.11
actual increment size
amount of material that is present in an increment (3.218)
3.12
actual s
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