{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-424/annex-II/division-SINGLE/division-5/division-5.1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/424",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 424/2013 of 7 May 2013 approving a minor amendment to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications [Ptujski lük (PGI)]",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-424",
  "path": "annex/II/division/SINGLE/division/5/division/5.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "5.1",
  "heading": "Specificity of the geographical area",
  "text": "The Ptujsko Polje is part of a flatland natural region where the land evolved on a pedosequence of sand and gravel. The soils are shallow, with a high sandy-particle and rock content. Owing to the continental climate, with spring rainfall and hot and relatively dry summers, these soils are often prone to drought. With regard to pedogenesis, the two pedosequences each have two soil systems. On gravel and sand, there are alluvial soils on a Holocene terrace and brown soils on a Pleistocene terrace, whereas on clay and loam there are brown pseudogleys and anthrosols.\nThe alluvial soils are young and pedologically undeveloped. They have a fine sandy texture and contain very few clayey particles. They are permeable and flowable. Fine sand reaches down to a depth of 100 cm; the gravel rarely reaches the surface. Where the water has filtered away there is arable land that offers favourable growing conditions, in particular where it is protected against flooding.\nBrown soils are the main soil type on the Ptujsko Polje. From a self-sufficiency point of view, they are strategically important for food production. This is made possible owing to the quality of the soils and the flatness of the terrain. The soils are of medium depth, have a medium humus content and are permeable and light-textured. Arable land predominates.\nThe brown, deep loam-based soils are situated on the edges of the Slovenske Gorice hills and the Pesnica valley, and loam is their primary constituent. These are deeper, more finely textured and less permeable soils. It is an area of intensive field-crop, grass and hop production.\nAnthrosols occupy the valley of the River Pesnica where it enters the Ptujsko Polje. Most of the land has been improved (in terms of drainage and agricultural use). The soils’ physical and chemical properties have been modified. The soils have been aerated and rendered permeable by deep tillage, and the use of fertilisers has raised their pH so that they are no longer acid. Intensive cropping predominates on these soils.\nGeographically speaking, the Dravsko-Ptujsko Polje forms part of the Sub-Pannonian region of Slovenia. The climate in this geographical region may be described as the most markedly continental. It is not overly endowed with rainfall, the annual average in the 1961-2000 period being around 950 mm. Around Ptuj, most of the rain tends to fall in June, July and August (usually more than 100 mm per month), and the driest months are March, April and May (only 60-85 mm per month).\n‘Ptujski luk’ must be harvested manually. This ensures the product’s high quality. Another specific feature of ‘Ptujski luk’ is that individual onions are woven into traditional wreaths containing six or twelve onions of the same size and colour.",
  "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/eur/2013/424/annex/II/division/SINGLE/division/5/division/5.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:41.093506+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."
}