# 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), Article 2: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purpose of this decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘farms’ means holdings with or without livestock rearing;
(b) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;
(c) ‘grassland’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary lies less than four years);
(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;
(e) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats and horses;
(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;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/64/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-64/article-2
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