Abstract Cadastres are always related to land: they are a creation of man as effect of his relationship with land. The different conditions of the Cadastre in 14 EU Member States, including the former EU Candidate States (that nowadays are also EU members), are shown in this paper. Half of EU countries store cadastral and registration data in the same database. Basically two original models of cadastral system exist in the EU, related with systems of land registration : 1) in the Central European model (beyond the area of the Germanic “Grundbuch”) Cadastre emerges as a graphic basis (map) of land registration (Land Registry), so that physical changes must be reflected in the Cadastre and legal changes in the Land Registry, by maintaining a perfect parallelism; 2) in the Latin model the Cadastre emerges only as a taxation instrument, useful for collecting land taxes. The Land Cadastre in the EU is almost always parcel-based and contains an urban Cadastre (of buildings) only in a few countries. Moreover, the European Land Information Service (EULIS) is shown as result of a project carried out by nine partners of eight EU Member States. The knowledge of the cadastral models in EU Member States is a fundamental condition for the harmonisation of Soil Cadastre at EU level as an inventory for environmental, social, economic, legal and taxation purposes.

T he Sr isotopic compositions of 11 wines from Romagna were determined with the aim of providing a new parameter to track the origin of these wines and serving for better trading. The 87 Sr values measured ranged narrowly from -0.07 to +0.33 permil, in agreement with the provenance of the parent grapes from an area characterized by substantial uniformity of soil composition. However, so far, it is possible to make a preliminary distinction of the Sangiovese wines from the other wines analyzed because the former contain slightly more radiogenic Sr. This may reflect the different soil geology of vineyards, as the Sangiovese wines are made from grapes mainly growing on flysch soils, while the other wines are from grapes growing on sedimentary and alluvial Pliocene-Quaternary soils. The comparison of the data from Romagna wines with those of other Italian regions shows the potential of the 87 Sr to characterize most of these products. However, the data are ambiguous for distinguishing the wines from vinyards growing on similar lithologies, i.e. soils developed on Late Cenozoic sedimentary rocks. The application of Sr isotopes may be a promising tool for setting the fingerprints of wines when combined with other isotopic and chemical parameters.