Article 3 Definitions

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

1. (a)

   ‘farms’ means agricultural holdings with or without livestock rearing;

2. (b)

   ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;

3. (c)

   ‘grassland’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary lies less than 4 years);

4. (d)

   ‘crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season’ means any of the following:

   1. (i)

      grassland;

   2. (ii)

      grassland with less than 50 % of clover;

   3. (iii)

      maize undersown, before or after harvest, with grass mowed and removed from the field acting as a catch crop;

   4. (iv)

      cut grassland or cut rye followed by maize;

   5. (v)

      winter wheat or triticale followed by a catch crop;

   6. (vi)

      sugar or fodder beets;

5. (e)

   ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats and horses;

6. (f)

   ‘manure treatment’ means the processing of pig manure in two fractions, a solid and a liquid fraction, performed in order to improve land application and enhance nitrogen and phosphorus recovery;

7. (g)

   ‘treated manure’ means the liquid fraction resulting from manure treatment;

8. (h)

   ‘effluent with low nitrogen and phosphate content’ means treated manure with a maximum nitrogen content of 1 kg per tonne effluent and a maximum phosphate content of 1 kg per tonne effluent;

9. (i)

   ‘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.