# 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), Article 2: Definitions

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

For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘farms’ means agricultural 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 4 years);
(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;
(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;
(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.;
(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;
(h) ‘cattle manure’ means livestock manure excreted by cattle, including during grazing or in processed form;
(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;
(j) ‘treated manure’ means the liquid fraction resulting from pig manure treatment, with a minimum nitrogen to phosphate ratio (N/P2O5) of 2,5;
(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;
(l) ‘soils with low Organic Matter content’ means soils with organic carbon content lower than 2 % in the top 30 centimetres of soil;
(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) ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ means the percentage of total nitrogen applied in livestock manure form which is available to crops in the year of application.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/721/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-721/article-2
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