{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-721/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-721/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2011/721",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 3 November 2011 on granting a derogation requested by Italy with regard to the Regions of Emilia Romagna, Lombardia, Piemonte and Veneto pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document C(2011) 7770) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (2011/721/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-721",
  "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 agricultural 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 4 years);\n(d) ‘late maturing maize’ means maize class FAO 600-700, planted from mid March to the beginning of April, with a growing cycle of at least 145-150 days;\n(e) ‘maize or sorghum followed by winter herbage’ means medium-late or early maturing maize or sorghum followed by winter herbage, such as Italian ryegrass, barley, triticale or winter rye;\n(f) ‘winter cereal followed by summer herbage’ means winter wheat, winter barley or triticale, followed by summer herbage, such as maize, sorghum, Setaria or Panicum sp.;\n(g) ‘crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season’ means grassland, late maturing maize, maize or sorghum followed by winter herbage and winter cereal followed by summer herbage;\n(h) ‘cattle manure’ means livestock manure excreted by cattle, including during grazing or in processed form;\n(i) ‘manure treatment’ means the processing of pig manure into two fractions, a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, performed in order to improve land application and enhance nitrogen and phosphorus recovery;\n(j) ‘treated manure’ means the liquid fraction resulting from pig manure treatment, with a minimum nitrogen to phosphate ratio (N/P2O5) of 2,5;\n(k) ‘treated manure with nitrogen removal’ means treated manure with a nitrogen content of less than 30 % compared to nitrogen content of the raw pig manure;\n(l) ‘soils with low Organic Matter content’ means soils with organic carbon content lower than 2 % in the top 30 centimetres of soil;\n(m) ‘non-saline and low salinity soils’ means those soils with electrical conductivity on saturated soil paste extract ECe < 4 mS/cm or electrical conductivity on aqueous extract with 1:2 soil/water ratio EC 1:2 < 1 ms/cm, or areas defined as certainly not affected by risk of salinisation, as indicated on the soil map defined at regional level;\n(n) ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ means the percentage of total nitrogen applied in livestock manure form which is available to crops in the year of application.",
  "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/2011/721/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T17:55:56.991131+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."
}