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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2003/division-C./division-C.1.",
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  "legislation": "eur/2003/2003",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 relating to fertilisers (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2003",
  "path": "division/C./division/C.1.",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "C.1",
  "heading": "Straight fluid fertilisers",
  "text": "No\nType designation\nData on method of production and essential ingredients\nMinimum content of nutrients (percentage by weight)Data on the expression of nutrientsOther requirements\nOther data or type designation\nNutrient content to be declaredForms and solubilities of the nutrientsOther criteria\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n1\nNitrogen fertiliser solution\nProduct obtained chemically and by dissolution in water, in a form stable at atmospheric pressure, without addition of organic nutrients of animal or vegetable origin\n15 % N\nNitrogen expressed as total nitrogen or, if there is only one form, nitric nitrogen or ammoniacal nitrogen or ureic nitrogen\nMaximum biuret content:\nureic N × 0,026\nTotal nitrogen and, for any form that amounts to not less than 1 %, nitric nitrogen, ammoniacal nitrogen and/or ureic nitrogen\nIf the biuret content is less than 0,2 %, the words ‘low in biuret’ may be added\n2\nUrea Ammonium nitrate fertiliser solution\nProduct obtained chemically and by dissolution in water, containing ammonium nitrate and urea\n26 % N\nNitrogen expressed as total nitrogen, where the ureic nitrogen accounts for about half of the nitrogen present\nMaximum biuret content: 0,5 %\nTotal nitrogen\nNitric nitrogen, ammoniacal nitrogen and ureic nitrogen\nIf the biuret content is less than 0,2 %, the words ‘low in biuret’ may be added\n3\nCalcium nitrate solution\nProduct obtained by dissolving calcium nitrate in water\n8 % N\nNitrogen expressed as nitrogen in nitric form with a maximum 1 % nitrogen as ammonia\nCalcium expressed as water soluble CaO\nThe type designation may be followed, as appropriate, by one of the following indications:\nfor foliar application;\nfor making nutrient solutions;\nfor ferti-irrigation.\nTotal nitrogen\nWater soluble calcium oxide for the uses stipulated in column 5\nOptionally:\nnitrogen in nitric form;\nnitrogen as ammonia.\n4\nMagnesium nitrate solution\nProduct obtained chemically and by dissolving magnesium nitrate in water\n6 % N\nNitrogen expressed as nitric nitrogen\nNitric nitrogen\nWater-soluble magnesium oxide\n9 % MgO\nMagnesium expressed as water-soluble magnesium oxide\nMinimum pH: 4\n5\nCalcium nitrate suspension\nProduct obtained by suspension of calcium nitrate in water\n8 % N\nNitrogen expressed as total nitrogen or nitric and ammoniacal nitrogen maximum content of ammoniacal nitrogen: 1,0 %\nThe type designation may be followed by one of the following indications:\nfor foliar application;\nfor making nutrient solutions and suspensions;\nfor fertigation.\nTotal nitrogen\nNitric nitrogen\nWater soluble calcium oxide for the uses stipulated in column 5\n14 % CaO Calcium expressed as water soluble CaO\n6\nNitrogen fertiliser solution with urea formaldehyde\nProduct obtained chemically or by dissolution in water of urea formaldehyde and a nitrogenous fertiliser from list A-1 in this regulation, excluding products 3(a), 3(b), and 5\n18 % N expressed as total nitrogen\nAt least one third of the declared total nitrogen content must derive from urea formaldehyde\nMaximum biuret content: (ureic N + urea formaldehyde N) × 0,026\nTotal nitrogen\nFor each form amounting to at least 1 %:\nNitric nitrogen;\nAmmoniacal nitrogen;\nUreic nitrogen.\nNitrogen from urea formaldehyde\n7\nNitrogen fertiliser suspension with urea formaldehyde\nProduct obtained chemically or by suspension in water of urea formaldehyde and a nitrogenous fertiliser from list A-1 in this regulation, excluding products 3(a), 3(b), and 5\n18 % N expressed as total nitrogen\nAt least one third of the declared total nitrogen content must derive from urea formaldehyde of which at least three fifths has to be soluble in hot water\nMaximum biuret content: (ureic N + urea formaldehyde N) × 0,026\nTotal nitrogen\nFor each form amounting to at least 1 %\nNitric nitrogen;\nAmmoniacal nitrogen;\nUreic nitrogen.\nNitrogen from urea formaldehyde\nNitrogen from urea formaldehyde that is soluble in cold water\nNitrogen from urea formaldehyde that is only soluble in hot water",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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