{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1325/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1325/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2019/1325",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1325 of 27 May 2019 granting a derogation requested by the United Kingdom with regard to Northern Ireland 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) 3816) (Only the English text is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1325",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland;\n(b) ‘grassland farms’ means holdings where 80 % or more of the agricultural acreage available for manure application is grass;\n(c) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, deer, goats and horses;\n(d) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;\n(e) ‘fertilisation plan’ means an advance calculation about the planned use and availability of nutrients;\n(f) ‘fertilisation account’ means the nutrient balance based on the real use and uptake of nutrients.",
  "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/2019/1325/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:36.328478+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."
}