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Article 12 Reporting

United Kingdom

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The competent authorities shall submit every year by December and for 2014 by September a report containing the following information:

  1. (a)

    maps showing the percentage of farms, percentage of livestock, percentage of agricultural land and local land use, as well as data on crop rotations and agricultural practices in derogation farms, as referred to in Article 10(1);

  2. (b)

    the results of water monitoring, including information on water quality trends for ground and surface waters, as well as the impact on derogation on water quality as referred to in Article 10(2);

  3. (c)

    evaluation of the nitrate residue in soil profile in autumn for the derogated parcels and a comparison with nitrate residue data and trends on non-derogated parcels for similar crop rotations. Non-derogated parcels should include non-derogated parcels on farms benefiting from derogation and parcels on other farms;

  4. (d)

    evaluation of the implementation of the derogation conditions, on the basis of controls at farm and parcel level, as well as controls on manure transport, and information on non-compliant farms, on the basis of the results of the administrative and field inspections;

  5. (e)

    information on manure treatment, including further processing and utilisation of the solid fractions, and provide detailed data on the characteristics of treatments systems, their efficiency and composition of treated manure;

  6. (f)

    information on the amount of farms benefiting from derogation and derogated parcels on which treated manure and effluents with low nitrogen and phosphate content has been applied as well as their volumes;

  7. (g)

    the methodologies to assess the composition of treated manure, the variations in composition and treatment efficiency for each farm benefiting from individual derogation, referred to in Article 5(3);

  8. (h)

    the inventory of manure treatment installation as referred to in Article 5(4);

  9. (i)

    summary and evaluation of data obtained from the monitoring sites referred to in Article 10(4).