Article 9 Conditions regarding land management
United Kingdom
1.
80 % or more of the acreage available for manure application shall be cultivated with crops with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season.
2.
Grass catch crops shall not be ploughed before 1 March the year after they have been established.
3.
Grasslands shall be ploughed in spring. A crop with high nitrogen uptake and long growing season shall be seeded as soon as possible, and no later than 3 weeks, after grass has been ploughed.
4.
Crops used in crop rotation shall not include leguminous plants or other plants fixing atmospheric nitrogen, except for the following:
(a)
clover and alfalfa in grassland together amounting to less than 50 %;
(b)
barley and pea undersown with grass.