# 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), Article 2: Definitions

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

For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) ‘grassland farms’ means holdings where 80 % or more of the agricultural area available for manure application is grass;
(2) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, deer, goats and horses;
(3) ‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland (temporary implying leys of less than four years);
(4) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2015/346/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-346/article-2
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