Article 2 Definitions

For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (a)

   ‘cattle farms’ means holdings with more than three livestock units, where at least two thirds of livestock are cattle;

2. (b)

   ‘grass’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary grassland lies less than four years);

3. (c)

   ‘crops being undersown by grass’: silage cereals, silage maize and/or spring barley, to be undersown before (maize) or after harvest, by grass which will act as a catch crop, for biological retention of nitrogen residual during winter;

4. (d)

   ‘beets’ means forage beets;

5. (e)

   ‘crops with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season’ means grass, grass catch crops or beets and other crops being undersown by grass;

6. (f)

   ‘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;

7. (g)

   ‘plough layer’ is the upper 30 cm of farmland where the soil analysis shall be done for accurate fertilisation.