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Item 1: Opening and follow-up of previous meetings

• Welcome, adoption of the agenda, guiding instructions for a fluent hybrid meeting (Bruno De Vos, Chair FSEPM)
• Adoption of the minutes of 22th FSEPM (Nathalie Cools, FSCC)
• Status of the ongoing and planned  soil surveys on Level I & Level II Follow up of the questionnaire in 2019: Level I  updates and  Level II: see tabel in the Thünen Cloud folder of the EP on Soil and Soil Solution (Bruno)
• Follow up of QAQC in the lab: summary and required actions by the FSEP & FSCC (Nathalie)

Item 2: Changes to manual Part X (Nathalie)

• Adoption of WRB  (2022)
• Adoption of Zanella et al. (2018)
• Method to measure available phosphorus in European forest soils
• Adoption new ISO standard on aqua regia analysis (ISO 54321:2020)
• Additional suggested changes (based on ESB evaluation work)
• Development of new methods and tests on soil biodiversity monitoring techniques (Bruno)

Item 3: Ecological studies book

• Challenges for ESB evaluations soil Level I (S1), Level II (SO) and soil solution (SS) (Bruno)
• Report from the data unit (Katrin Haggenmüller and Till Kirchner, PCC) 
  • S1: submission state
  • S1: survey_year gap filling process
  • S1: code_layer - discussion - how could we deal with multiple layers
  • SS: date gap filling for survey years before 2007
• Data quality checks  
  • Data validation & status of quality checks (Heleen Deroo, FSCC)
  • Handling of PIR files (Heleen)
  • handling of LOQs and values below LOQ (Heleen)
  • (re)submission problems (Nathalie and Bruno): see the mentimeter
  • Data submission Soil Solution: Suggestions to overcome a number of problems (Panagiotis Michopoulos, Greece)
• Data evaluations
  • Approaches to evaluate Europe-wide soil solution data for ESB (Tiina Nieminen, vice-chair FSEP) 
  • Stock calculations: data availability and statistical procedures (Bruno)
• Relation between solid soil Level I, Level II and Soil Solution
  
  • Stratification and classification of soil data to link Level I and II (Nathalie en Heleen)
  • Possibilities for joint analysis (Nathalie and Tiina):
    • Spatial and temporal availability of co-located plots with soil and soil solution data
    • Selected variables to link both surveys

Item 4: Cooperation with external projects and other initiatives

• H2020 Holisoils:
  • Progress of Holisoils project (Raisa Maäkipä & Aleksi Lehtonen)
  • Joint Field Course on WRB & Humus classification & soil sampling (Nicole Wellbrock)
• HE PathFinder (Nathalie)
• HE FORWARDS (Bruno)
• EIONET (Nicole Wellbrock)