kSIST-TS FprCEN/TS 17732:2021

Soil improvers and growing media - Terminology

This document specifies terminology for soil improvers and growing media.
Annex A contains an overview of all terms defined in this document in alphabetical order.

Bodenverbesserungsmittel und Kultursubstrate - Terminologie

In diesem Dokument wird Terminologie zu Bodenverbesserungsmitteln und Kultursubstraten festgelegt.
Anhang A enthält eine Übersicht aller in diesem Dokument definierten Begriffe in alphabetischer Reihenfolge.

Amendements du sol et supports de culture - Terminologie

Le présent document spécifie la terminologie relative aux amendements organiques et supports de culture.
L’Annexe A récapitule tous les termes définis dans le présent document, classés par ordre alphabétique.

Izboljševalci tal in rastni substrati - Terminologija

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 30-Nov-2021
• ICS: 01.040.65 - Agriculture (Vocabularies)
• ICS: 65.080 - Fertilizers
• Technical Committee: KAT - Soil quality
• Current Stage: 5520 - Unique Acceptance Procedure (UAP) (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 13-Oct-2021
• Due Date: 02-Mar-2022
• Completion Date: 03-Dec-2021
• Directive: 2019/1009 - Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 laying down rules on the making available on the market of EU fertilising products and amending Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 and (EC) No 1107/2009 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003
• Mandate: M/564 - Fertilising products in support of Regulation (EU) 2019/1009
• Ref Project: CEN/TS 17732:2022 - Soil improvers and growing media - Terminology

Standards Content (sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
kSIST-TS FprCEN/TS 17732:2021
01-november-2021
Izboljševalci tal in rastni substrati - Terminologija
Soil improvers and growing media - Terminology
Bodenverbesserungsmittel und Kultursubstrate - Terminologie
Amendements du sol et supports de culture - Terminologie
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: FprCEN/TS 17732
ICS:
01.040.65 Kmetijstvo (Slovarji) Agriculture (Vocabularies)
65.080 Gnojila Fertilizers
kSIST-TS FprCEN/TS 17732:2021 en,fr,de

2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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FINAL DRAFT
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
FprCEN/TS 17732
SPÉCIFICATION TECHNIQUE
TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION
September 2021
ICS 01.040.65; 65.080
English Version
Soil improvers and growing media - Terminology

Amendements du sol et supports de culture - Bodenverbesserungsmittel und Kultursubstrate -

Terminologie Terminologie

This draft Technical Specification is submitted to CEN members for Vote. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee

CEN/TC 223.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, 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, Turkey and

United Kingdom.

Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are

aware and to provide supporting documentation.

Warning : This document is not a Technical Specification. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change

without notice and shall not be referred to as a Technical Specification.
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Contents Page

European foreword ............................................................................................................................................ 3

Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 4

1 Scope .......................................................................................................................................................... 5

2 Normative references .......................................................................................................................... 5

3 Terms and definitions ......................................................................................................................... 5

3.1 General terms ......................................................................................................................................... 5

3.2 Terms relating to products ............................................................................................................... 5

3.3 Terms relating to components ......................................................................................................... 6

3.4 Terms relating to processing and manufacture ........................................................................ 8

3.5 Terms relating to sampling ............................................................................................................... 9

3.6 Terms relating to chemical properties ....................................................................................... 10

3.7 Terms relating to physical and physio-chemical properties .............................................. 10

3.8 Terms relating to biological properties ...................................................................................... 13

3.9 Terms relating to safety ................................................................................................................... 14

Annex A (informative) All terms defined in this document in alphabetical order ................... 15

Bibliography ....................................................................................................................................................... 19

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European foreword

This document (FprCEN/TS 17732:2021) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 223 “Soil

improvers and growing media”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN.
This document is currently submitted to the Vote on TS.

This document has been prepared under a Standardization Request given to CEN by the European

Commission and the European Free Trade Association.
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Introduction

Some of the standards requested by the standardization request M/564 will use common terminology.

For ease of reference, to simplify standardization work and to avoid unnecessary repetitions such

common terminology is included in this document. In this way, any document where the relevant

terminology is used could refer to this document.
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1 Scope
This document specifies terminology for soil improvers and growing media.

Annex A contains an overview of all terms defined in this document in alphabetical order.

2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 General terms
3.1.1
additional labelling

information which can be shown on the package, label or on the accompanying documents

3.1.2
container

receptacle or vessel in which material is delivered, including a lorry, ship, boat and packaging

3.1.3
intended use

application of a product, process or service in accordance with information provided by the supplier

3.1.4
labelling requirements

information which is shown on the package, label or on the accompanying documents

3.1.5
package

container and materials contained therein which are delivered and where the container remains with the

material after delivery

Note 1 to entry: A package may be a loose-filled sack, a big bale or a compressed block in packaging.

3.1.6
strike

transparent sheet of flat material, for instance toughened glass or acrylic glass which is easily large

enough to cover the top of the measuring cylinder
Note 1 to entry: Used to calibrate measuring cylinder.
3.1.7
user

anybody applying the product, including professional and non-professional (amateur) persons

3.2 Terms relating to products
3.2.1
growing medium
material, other than soil in situ, in which plants or mushrooms are grown
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3.2.2
growing medium component
material which is suitable as an ingredient of growing media
3.2.3
pre-shaped growing medium

solid, regular shaped, stable growing medium, which is ready for use as a growing medium, where the

dimensions are stable, including mineral wool and polyurethane products
3.2.4
soil improver

material added to soil in situ primarily to maintain, improve or protect the physical or chemical

properties, the structure or the biological activity of the soil
3.2.5
soil improver component
material which is suitable as an ingredient of soil improvers
3.3 Terms relating to components
3.3.1
ash

residual mineral matter remaining after the destruction of organic matter/material by controlled burning

Note 1 to entry: Such residues may be used as fertilizers, for example, plant ash and animal ash, containing mainly

potassium salts and phosphates.
3.3.2
biochar
porous, carbonaceous material that is produced by pyrolysis of organic material
3.3.3
coir

fibrous husk (mesocarp) of the coconut (Cocos nucifera), underlying the smooth outermost layer

(exocarp), surrounding the hard woody layer (endocarp)
Note 1 to entry: Coir consists of fibres and pith.
3.3.4
compost

solid particulate material that is the result of an aerobic composting of biodegradable matter by

microorganisms, which has been sanitized and stabilized
3.3.5
digestate

solid or liquid material that is the result of anaerobic digestion of biodegradable materials by

microorganisms
3.3.6
digestate other than fresh crop digestate
component material designated as CMC 5
Note 1 to entry: Specified in the Regulation (EC) No 2019/1009.
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3.3.7
fresh crop digestate
component material designated as CMC 4
Note 1 to entry: Specified in the Regulation (EC) No 2019/1009.
3.3.8
industrial sludge

semi-liquid residue or slurry that remains after the treatment of industrial water and wastewater

3.3.9
leonardite
soft waxy, black or brown, shiny, vitreous mineraloid

Note 1 to entry: Leonardite is an oxidation product of lignite, associated with near-surface mining.

3.3.10
lignite

fossil, soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed organic material in

the absence of oxygen (coalification)
Note 1 to entry: Lignite is often referred to as brown coal.
3.3.11
organic material
material of plant and/or animal origin
3.3.12
peat

weakly to strongly decomposed (humified) plant material consisting of non-fossil organic matter that has

sedentarily accumulated in a water-saturated environment (mire) in the absence of oxygen

3.3.13
Sphagnum
plant genus of peat mosses

Note 1 to entry: The division Bryophyta, comprising the family Sphagnaceae contains one genus, Sphagnum, to

which 292 (worldwide) known species of peat mosses are assigned to.
3.3.14
virgin material

raw material that has been mined, extracted or harvested and has never been previously used, developed,

or processed
3.3.15
wood fibre

fiberized wood chips to which, if necessary, conditioning agents are added during the mechanical-thermal

or steam-treatment fiberization process to stabilize the nitrogen imbalance or to dye the fibres

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3.4 Terms relating to processing and manufacture
3.4.1
anaerobic digestion

controlled decomposition of biodegradable materials, which is predominately anaerobic and at

temperatures suitable for mesophilic or thermophilic bacteria
3.4.2
composting

controlled decomposition of biodegradable materials, which is predominantly aerobic and which allows

the development of temperatures suitable for thermophilic bacteria as a result of biologically produced

heat
3.4.3
drying

process to dry a material in order to reduce its moisture content, which can be achieved under natural

conditions (e.g. drying of extracted peat or coir by wind and sun) or thermally (e.g. in a drying oven)

3.4.4
extraction

process of removing inorganic raw material (e.g. perlite, diabas) or organic raw material (e.g. peat) from

its natural deposit for further processing
3.4.5
fiberization

mechanical-thermal extrusion or steam treatment of wood chips the purpose of which is to generate high

pressure and high temperatures up to 150 °C or higher, breaking the wood chips into wood fibers which

are used as a growing media component

Note 1 to entry: The same function can be obtained by applying hot steam to the wood chips.

3.4.6
frost treatment

natural, in the field freezing through of extracted strongly decomposed peat to improve its physical

properties (water capacity and air capacity) as a growing media component
3.4.7
hydraulic retention time
HRT

average residence time of the material in the digester vessel, determined by the loading rate and

operational digester capacity

Note 1 to entry: The hydraulic retention time can be calculated by dividing the digester working volume [in m ] by

the rate of flow of input materials into the digester [in m per day).
3.4.8
milling

process of grinding, cutting, pressing or crushing a material in a mill or by using a milling machine

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3.4.9
pyrolysis
chemical decomposition of organic materials through the application of heat

Note 1 to entry: Biomass pyrolysis is the process used for the manufacture of biochar, whereby organic substances

are broken down at temperatures ranging from 350 °C to 1000 °C in a low-oxygen process.

3.4.10
precipitation

result of a chemical reaction in solution resulting in the formation of a solid product

3.4.11
sanitation

reduction of human, animal and plant pathogens to acceptable levels as a result of the treatment process

3.4.1
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