{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-880/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-880/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2005/880",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 8 December 2005 granting a derogation requested by the Netherlands pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document number C(2005) 4778) (Only the Dutch text is authentic) (2005/880/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-880",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘grassland farms’ means holdings where 70 % or more of the acreage available for manure application is grass;\n(b) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats and horses, donkeys, deer and water buffalo;\n(c) ‘farm land’ means the acreage owned, rented or managed by the farmer under another written individual contract, on which the farmer has a direct management responsibility;\n(d) ‘Grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland which lies less than four years.",
  "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/2005/880/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:45.662923+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."
}