During November 2016, the Dutch Academy offered to lead an EASAC project on soils and organized a workshop for 20 pedology experts. This report has been recently submitted to the European Union as an obligatory document for a debate on soil sustainability. The project benefited from the work of its authors and reviewers of the Institute of Geology CAS (L. Lisá as a co-author and A. Žigová as one of the reviewers). The complete report of EASAC is available here. The document is free to distribute. The principal aim of EASAC is to unify the National Academies of Sciences of EU, Norway and Switzerland to provide scientific expertise to EU politicians. For additional information see here.