{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-64/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-64/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2008/64",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 21 December 2007 granting a derogation requested by Belgium with regard to the region of Flanders 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(2007) 6654) (Only the Dutch version is authentic) (2008/64/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-64",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘farms’ means holdings with or without livestock rearing;\n(b) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;\n(c) ‘grassland’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary lies less than four years);\n(d) ‘crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season’ means grassland, maize undersown, before or after harvest, with grass mowed and removed from the field acting as a catch crop, winter wheat followed by a catch crop, sugar or fodder beets;\n(e) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats and horses;\n(f) ‘manure treatment’ means the process of physical-mechanical separation of pig manure into two fractions, a solid and a clarified fraction, performed in order to improve land application and enhance nitrogen and phosphorus recovery;\n(g) ‘soil profile’ means the soil layer below ground level to a depth of 0,90 m, unless the average highest groundwater level is shallower; in this latter case it shall be to a depth of the average highest groundwater level.",
  "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/2008/64/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:57.040976+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."
}