{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-346/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-346/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2015/346",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/346 of 9 February 2015 on granting a derogation requested by the United Kingdom with regard to Northern Ireland 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) 542) (Only the English text is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-346",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(1) ‘grassland farms’ means holdings where 80 % or more of the agricultural area available for manure application is grass;\n(2) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, deer, goats and horses;\n(3) ‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland (temporary implying leys of less than four years);\n(4) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices.",
  "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/2015/346/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:27.013499+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."
}