For the purpose of this decision, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (a)

   ‘farms’ means holdings with or without livestock rearing;

2. (b)

   ‘parcel’ means an individual field or a group of fields, homogeneous regarding cropping, soil type and fertilisation practices;

3. (c)

   ‘grassland’ means permanent or temporary grassland (generally temporary lies less than four years);

4. (d)

   ‘crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season’ means grassland, maize undersown, before or after harvest, with grass mowed and removed from the field acting as a catch crop, winter wheat followed by a catch crop, sugar or fodder beets;

5. (e)

   ‘grazing livestock’ means cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, goats and horses;

6. (f)

   ‘manure treatment’ means the process of physical-mechanical separation of pig manure into two fractions, a solid and a clarified fraction, performed in order to improve land application and enhance nitrogen and phosphorus recovery;

7. (g)

   ‘soil profile’ means the soil layer below ground level to a depth of 0,90 m, unless the average highest groundwater level is shallower; in this latter case it shall be to a depth of the average highest groundwater level.