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Regulation 20 Closed periods for organic manure

United Kingdom

(1)

A person must not spread organic manure with high readily available nitrogen on land during the closed period.

(2)

The closed period is—

(a)

in the case of grassland with soil of a type specified in the first column of the table in paragraph (3), the period which begins with the first date specified in relation to soil of that type in the second column of the table and ends with the second date so specified;

(b)

in the case of tillage land with soil of a type specified in the first column of the table, the period which begins with the first date specified in relation to soil of that type in the third column of the table and ends with the second date so specified (but see paragraph (4)).

(3)

This is the table referred to in paragraph (2)—

Soil typeGrasslandTillage land
Sandy or shallow soil1st September to following 31st December1st August to following 31st December
All other soils15th October to following 31st January1st October to following 31st January
(4)

A person may, in spite of paragraph (2)(b), spread organic manure with high readily available nitrogen on tillage land with sandy or shallow soil during the period that begins with 1st August and ends with the following 15th September if the next crop sown on the land is sown on or before 15th September.

(5)

Between the end of the closed period and the end of the following February—

(a)

the maximum amount of slurry that may be spread at any one time is 30 cubic metres per hectare;

(b)

the maximum amount of poultry manure that may be spread at any one time is 8 tonnes per hectare;

(c)

there must be at least three weeks between any spreading of either of the descriptions specified in paragraph (a) or (b).

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(7)

This regulation does not apply to the spreading of nitrogen fertiliser in a greenhouse.

(8)

In this regulation and regulation 21, “organic manure with high readily available nitrogen” means organic manure in which more than 30% of the total nitrogen content is available to the crop at the time of spreading.

Annotations

Textual amendments

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Reg. 20(6) omitted (31.12.2016) by virtue of The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1190), regs. 1(1), 9(2)