Article 8 Conditions regarding land management

Farmers benefitting from an authorisation pursuant to Article 5 shall plough grassland between 15 February and 30 April. Ploughing grassland for grassland renewal and ploughing of grassland on clay soils may take place also between 15 September and 30 October.

Farmers benefitting from an authorisation pursuant to Article 5 shall sow crops with high nitrogen demand within 2 weeks after ploughing of grassland, except on clay soils ploughed between 15 September and 30 October.

When permanent grassland is ploughed, no fertilisations shall be applied except for cereals, rapeseed, beets, grassland and Brussels sprouts following soil analysis taking into account mineral nitrogen and other parameters providing reference for estimate of nitrogen release from soil organic matter mineralisation.

Crop rotation shall not include leguminous or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen. However, crop rotation may include clover in grassland with less than 50 % clover.

Catch crops shall be seeded within 2 weeks after the harvest of winter wheat and triticale and no later than 15 September.

Catch crops shall not be ploughed before 15 February.