{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1073/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1073/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2020/1073",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1073 of 17 July 2020 granting a derogation requested by the Netherlands pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (Only the Dutch version is authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1073",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(1) ‘grassland farm’ means any holding where at least 80 % of the acreage available for manure application is grass;\n(2) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, deer, and water buffalo;\n(3) ‘farmland’ means the acreage owned, rented or managed by the farmer under a written individual contract and on which the farmer has a direct management responsibility\n(4) ‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland which lies less than five years;\n(5) ‘fertilisation plan’ means a calculation of the planned use and availability of nutrients;\n(6) ‘fertilisation account’ means the nutrient balance based on the real use and uptake of nutrients;\n(7) ‘southern and central sandy soils’ means soils indicated as southern and central sandy soils under the Dutch legislation implementing Directive 91/676/EEC;\n(8) ‘loess soils’ means soils indicated as loess soils under the Dutch legislation implementing Directive 91/676/EEC",
  "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/2020/1073/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:12.738636+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."
}