{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-346/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-346/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Land management",
  "text": "1. Eighty per cent or more of the area available for manure application on farms shall be cultivated with grass.\n2. Farmers benefiting from an individual derogation shall carry out the following measures:\n(a) temporary grassland shall be ploughed in spring;\n(b) ploughed grass on all soil types shall be followed immediately by a crop with high nitrogen demand;\n(c) crop rotation shall not include leguminous or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen.\n3. Point c of the second paragraph shall, however, not apply to clover in grassland with less than 50 % clover and to other leguminous plants that are undersown with grass.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}