# 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), Article 3: Definitions

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

For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘farms’ means agricultural holdings with or without livestock rearing;
(b) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;
(c) ‘grassland’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary lies less than 4 years);
(d) ‘crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season’ means any of the following:
(i) grassland;
(ii) grassland with less than 50 % of clover;
(iii) maize undersown, before or after harvest, with grass mowed and removed from the field acting as a catch crop;
(iv) cut grassland or cut rye followed by maize;
(v) winter wheat or triticale followed by a catch crop;
(vi) sugar or fodder beets;
(e) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats and horses;
(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;
(g) ‘treated manure’ means the liquid fraction resulting from manure treatment;
(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;
(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.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2015/1499/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-1499/article-3
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.