{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-294/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-294/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2005/294",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 5 April 2005 concerning a request for derogation under point 2(b) of Annex III to and Article 9 of Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document number C(2005) 1032) (Only the Danish text is authentic) (2005/294/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-294",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Land cover",
  "text": "1. 70 % or more of the acreage available for manure application on the cattle holding in question shall be cultivated with grass, grass catch crops or beets and other crops being undersown by grass with low nitrate leaching potential.\n2. Grass catch crops shall not be ploughed before 1 March in order to ensure permanent vegetal cover of arable area for recovering subsoil autumn losses of nitrates and limit winter losses.\n3. Temporary grasslands shall be ploughed in spring.\n4. Crop rotation shall not include leguminous or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen. This will however not apply to clover in grassland with less than 50 % clover and to barley/pea undersown with grass.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2005/294/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:57.023629+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}