Currently the forest liming in the Czech Republic is performed according to the government resolutions 532/2000 and 22/2004. This booklet introduces basic rules for quality control and quality assurance. The control of individual applications includes: check of supplied quantity of lime, check of lime humidity, check of chemical composition and grain composition or applied material, control of spatial distribution and completeness of application. The long-term effects are evaluated on the base

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... f repeated soil survey and tree nutrition assessment on limed plots comparing to control treatment without any chemical amelioration. Soil and foliage samples are taken before the application and then two, five and ten years after liming.