{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-659/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-659/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2012/659",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 23 October 2012 on granting a derogation requested by the Kingdom of Denmark pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document C(2012) 7182) (Only the Danish text is authentic) (2012/659/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-659",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘cattle farms’ means holdings with more than three livestock units, where at least two thirds of livestock are cattle;\n(b) ‘grass’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary grassland lies less than four years);\n(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;\n(d) ‘beets’ means forage beets;\n(e) ‘crops with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season’ means grass, grass catch crops or beets and other crops being undersown by grass;\n(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;\n(g) ‘plough layer’ is the upper 30 cm of farmland where the soil analysis shall be done for accurate fertilisation.",
  "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/2012/659/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T18:19:07.178079+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."
}