Article 8 Conditions regarding land management

On sand and loess soil, grass or other crops ensuring soil coverage during the winter shall be cultivated after maize.

Catch crops shall not be ploughed before 1 February.

Grass on sandy and loessial soils shall only be ploughed in spring, except for ploughing grassland for grassland renewal, which may be done until 31 August at the latest.

Ploughed grass on all soil types shall be followed immediately by a crop with high nitrogen demand and fertilisation shall be based on soil analysis concerning mineral nitrogen and other parameters providing references for estimate of nitrogen release from soil organic matter mineralisation.

Where crop rotation includes leguminous or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen, fertiliser application shall be reduced accordingly.

By way of derogation from paragraph 3, grass ploughing is permitted in autumn for planting flower bulbs.