Article 3 Definitions

For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (a)

   ‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland;

2. (b)

   ‘grassland farms’ means holdings where 80 % or more of the agricultural acreage available for manure application is grass;

3. (c)

   ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, deer, goats and horses;

4. (d)

   ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;

5. (e)

   ‘fertilisation plan’ means an advance calculation about the planned use and availability of nutrients;

6. (f)

   ‘fertilisation account’ means the nutrient balance based on the real use and uptake of nutrients.