# 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), Article 3: Definitions

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

For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) ‘grassland farm’ means any holding where at least 80 % of the acreage available for manure application is grass;
(2) ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, deer, and water buffalo;
(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
(4) ‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland which lies less than five years;
(5) ‘fertilisation plan’ means a calculation of the planned use and availability of nutrients;
(6) ‘fertilisation account’ means the nutrient balance based on the real use and uptake of nutrients;
(7) ‘southern and central sandy soils’ means soils indicated as southern and central sandy soils under the Dutch legislation implementing Directive 91/676/EEC;
(8) ‘loess soils’ means soils indicated as loess soils under the Dutch legislation implementing Directive 91/676/EEC

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1073/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1073/article-3
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