{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-302/annex/division-3/division-1/division-1.11/division-BAT+18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-302/annex/division-3/division-1/division-1.11/division-BAT+18.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2017/302",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/302 of 15 February 2017 establishing best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, for the intensive rearing of poultry or pigs (notified under document C(2017) 688) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-302",
  "path": "annex/division/3/division/1/division/1.11/division/BAT+18",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "BAT 18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In order to prevent emissions to soil and water from slurry collection, piping, and from a store and/or an earth-banked storage (lagoon), BAT is to use a combination of the techniques given below.\nA description of the techniques is given in Section 3.1.1 and 4.6.2.\nTechnique\nApplicability\na\nUse stores that are able to withstand mechanical, chemical and thermal influences.\nGenerally applicable.\nb\nSelect a storage facility with a sufficient capacity to hold the slurry during periods in which landspreading is not possible.\nGenerally applicable.\nc\nConstruct leak-proof facilities and equipment for collection and transfer of slurry (e.g. pits, channels, drains, pump stations).\nGenerally applicable.\nd\nStore slurry in earth-banked stores (lagoons) with an impermeable base and walls e.g. with clay or plastic lining (or double-lined).\nGenerally applicable to lagoons.\ne\nInstall a leakage detection system, e.g. consisting of a geomembrane, a drainage layer and a drainage pipe system.\nOnly applicable to new plants.\nf\nCheck structural integrity of stores at least once every year.\nGenerally applicable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A description of the techniques is given in Section 3.1.1 and 4.6.2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/302/annex/division/3/division/1/division/1.11/division/BAT+18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:35.783160+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."
}