# 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), Article 3: Definitions

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

For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland;
(b) ‘grassland farms’ means holdings where 80 % or more of the agricultural acreage available for manure application is grass;
(c) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, deer, goats and horses;
(d) ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;
(e) ‘fertilisation plan’ means an advance calculation about the planned use and availability of nutrients;
(f) ‘fertilisation account’ means the nutrient balance based on the real use and uptake of nutrients.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1325/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1325/article-3
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