{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-1499/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-1499/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2015/1499",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1499 of 3 September 2015 granting a derogation requested by Belgium with regard to the region of Flanders pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document C(2015) 6058) (Only the Dutch text is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-1499",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘farms’ means agricultural holdings with or without livestock rearing;\n(b) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;\n(c) ‘grassland’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary lies less than 4 years);\n(d) ‘crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season’ means any of the following:\n(i) grassland;\n(ii) grassland with less than 50 % of clover;\n(iii) maize undersown, before or after harvest, with grass mowed and removed from the field acting as a catch crop;\n(iv) cut grassland or cut rye followed by maize;\n(v) winter wheat or triticale followed by a catch crop;\n(vi) sugar or fodder beets;\n(e) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats and horses;\n(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;\n(g) ‘treated manure’ means the liquid fraction resulting from manure treatment;\n(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;\n(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.",
  "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/2015/1499/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:15.156895+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."
}