{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1928/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1928/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1928",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1928 of 6 December 2018 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(2018) 8081) (Only the Danish text is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1928",
  "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 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.",
  "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/2018/1928/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:54.887127+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."
}