{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-721/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-721/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Land management",
  "text": "Farmers benefiting from a derogation shall ensure that the following conditions are met:\n(a) 70 % or more of the acreage of the farm shall be cultivated with crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season;\n(b) temporary grassland shall be ploughed in spring;\n(c) temporary and permanent grassland shall not include more than 50 % of leguminous or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen;\n(d) late maturing maize shall be harvested (the whole plant);\n(e) winter herbage, such as Italian ryegrass, barley, triticale or winter rye, shall be seeded within 2 weeks after harvest of maize/sorghum and shall be harvested no earlier than 2 weeks before maize/sorghum sowing;\n(f) summer herbage, such as maize, sorghum, Setaria or Panicum sp. shall be seeded within 2 weeks after harvest of winter cereals and shall be harvested no earlier than 2 weeks before winter cereals sowing;\n(g) a crop with high nitrogen demand shall be seeded within 2 weeks after ploughing grass and fertilisers shall not be applied in the year of ploughing of permanent grassland.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}