Article 9 Conditions regarding land management
United Kingdom
80 % or more of the acreage available for manure application shall be cultivated with crops with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season.
Grass catch crops shall not be ploughed before 1 March the year after they have been established.
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.
Crops used in crop rotation shall not include leguminous plants or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen, except for the following:
clover in grassland with less than 50 % clover and alfalfa;
alfalfa in grassland with less than 50 % clover and alfalfa;
barley and pea undersown with grass;
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 2017/2018 No 963 (12 July 2017), and in corresponding orders in the subsequent planning periods regarding fertilisation standards, table on fertilisation norms for agricultural crops and vegetables, and subsequent changes.