# 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), Article 2: Definitions

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

For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘cattle farms’ means holdings with more than three livestock units, where at least two thirds of livestock are cattle;
(b) ‘grass’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary grassland lies less than four years);
(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;
(d) ‘beets’ means forage beets;
(e) ‘crops with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season’ means grass, grass catch crops or beets and other crops being undersown by grass;
(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;
(g) ‘plough layer’ is the upper 30 cm of farmland where the soil analysis shall be done for accurate fertilisation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/659/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-659/article-2
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