Regulation 21 Exemption for organic holdings

United Kingdom

(1)

The occupier of a holding who has submitted his or her undertaking to the control system referred to in Article 27 of Council Regulation (EC) 834/2007 may at any time, in spite of regulation 20, spread organic manure with high readily available nitrogen—

(a)

on winter oilseed rape, asparagus, brassica, grass, over-wintered salad onions, parsley or bulb onions;

(b)

on any other crop in accordance with written advice from a FACTS adviser.

(2)

Paragraph (1) applies only if each hectare on which the organic manure is spread does not receive more than 150kg total nitrogen between the start of the applicable closed period under regulation 20 and the end of the following February.

(3)

In the case of winter oilseed rape, nitrogen must not be spread after 31st October.

(4)

In the case of brassica, an additional 50kg of nitrogen per hectare may be spread every four weeks during the applicable closed period under regulation 20 up to the date of harvest (but not so as to exceed the limit imposed by paragraph (2)).

(5)

In the case of grass—

(a)

nitrogen must not be spread after 31st October, and

(b)

a maximum of 40kg of nitrogen per hectare may be spread at any one time.

F1(6)

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(7)

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

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 21(6) omitted (31.12.2016) by virtue of The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1190), regs. 1(1), 9(3)