{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-847/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-847/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2017/847",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/847 of 16 May 2017 granting a derogation requested by Denmark pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document C(2017) 2891) (Only the Danish text is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-847",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Conditions regarding land management",
  "text": "1. 80 % or more of the acreage available for manure application shall be cultivated with crops with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season.\n2. Grass catch crops shall not be ploughed before 1 March the year after they have been established.\n3. Temporary grasslands shall be ploughed in spring. A crop with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season shall be seeded as soon as possible, and no later than 3 weeks, after grass has been ploughed.\n4. Crops used in crop rotation shall not include leguminous plants or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen, except for the following:\n(a) clover in grassland with less than 50 % clover and alfalfa;\n(b) alfalfa in grassland with less than 50 % clover and alfalfa;\n(c) barley and pea undersown with grass;\n5. Nitrogen fertilisations standards for crops following temporary grassland shall be reduced by the previous crop nitrogen value according to Order on agricultural use of fertiliser in the planning period 2016/2017 No 1055 (1/07/16), and in corresponding orders in the following planning periods regarding fertilisation standards, table on fertilisation norms for agricultural crops and vegetables, and subsequent changes.",
  "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/2017/847/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:29.930977+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."
}