Article 2 U.K. Definitions

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

(a)

‘farms’ means holdings with or without livestock rearing;

(b)

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

(c)

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

(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;

(e)

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

(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;

(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.