On Friday, 22nd November 2019, the Horizon 2020 funded project MinLand held its Final Conference and Clustering Event in Brussels, Belgium. Members of the Consortium and the Advisory Group and relevant stakeholders from the Commission, the Member States and the Industry met before the very end of the project to share the project results and outcomes and discuss the progress and the achievements made by MinLand.

The 4th and last issue of the MinLand newsletter comprises of interviews with the main stakeholders of the MinLand workshop investigating on the link between EU policies for minerals and a more regulated framework for spatial planning and land-use.

The EU Action Plan for nature, people and the economy requires the Commission, under Action 8, to “identify with Member States and other stakeholders best practices on investment for extractive operations and for land rehabilitation and restoration by non-energy mineral extractive industry, in order to complement the existing guidance on non-energy mineral extractive industry in Natura 2000”.