# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1205 of 12 July 2019 granting a derogation requested by Belgium with regard to the region of Flanders pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document C(2019) 5180) (Only the Dutch and the French texts are authentic), Article 10: Monitoring

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The competent authorities shall ensure that maps showing the percentage of farms, number of parcels, percentage of livestock, percentage of agricultural land and local land use covered by an authorisation pursuant to Article 5, are drawn up for each municipality and updated every year.
2. Data on crop rotations and agricultural practices covered by individual derogations shall be collected and updated every year by the competent authority.
3. The monitoring network for sampling of surface and shallow groundwater referred in Article 10(2) of Commission Decision 2008/64/EC shall be maintained to assess the impact of the derogation on water quality. The monitoring network shall include monitoring of the nitrate and phosphate of rivers flowing to the North Sea. The amount of initial monitoring sites shall not be reduced and the location of the sites shall not be changed during the period of applicability of this Decision.
4. A reinforced monitoring shall be conducted in agricultural catchments on sandy soils.
5. The monitoring sites, corresponding to at least 150 farms, established under Decision 2008/64/EC shall be maintained until it is replaced from 2020 by a targeted monitoring in order to provide data on local land use, crop rotations and fertilisation practices, soil water, mineral nitrogen in the soil profile in autumn and the phosphorus status of the soil and corresponding nitrogen losses through the root zone, both under derogation and non-derogation conditions. Together with the specific monitoring referred to in paragraph 8, these new arrangements shall allow to evaluate the environmental performance of farms benefitting from an authorisation pursuant to Article 5 of this Decision compared to farms that are not benefitting from such an authorisation as well as to monitor that the objectives of Directive 91/676/EEC are achieved.
The monitoring sites shall include main soil types (clay, loamy, sandy and loessial soils), fertilisation practices and crops
6. Data on local land use, crop rotations, agricultural practices, nutrient use and manure production on farms benefiting from individual derogations shall be collected annually.
7. The data referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Article and in Article 7 shall be used for model-based calculations of the magnitude of nitrate leaching and phosphorus losses from fields where up to 250 kg or up to 200 kg nitrogen per hectare per year of grazing livestock manure and treated manure is applied.
8. The monitoring network including shallow groundwater, soil water, drainage water and streams in farms belonging to the monitoring network, shall provide data on nitrate and phosphorus concentration in water leaving the root zone and entering the groundwater and surface water system.
9. The Competent authority shall implement an area specific monitoring from 2020 as a research pilot in at least two (sub)catchments to better understand the connection between nitrate losses on parcel level and the nitrate concentration in surface water and ground water at the level of a (sub)catchment with a view to calibrating and validating the nutrient emission model. That research pilot shall be combined with a pilot project on continuous monitoring of N and P in the water courses.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1205/article/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1205/article-10
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