Commission Implementing Decision of 3 November 2011 on granting a derogation requested by Italy with regard to the Regions of Emilia Romagna, Lombardia, Piemonte and Veneto pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document C(2011) 7770) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (2011/721/EU)

Article 12 Reporting

The competent authorities shall submit to the Commission every year by December, and for the year 2015 by September, a report containing the following information:

(a)

evaluation of the implementation of the derogation, on the basis of controls at farm level, as well as controls on manure transport, and information on non-compliant farms, on the basis of the results of the administrative and field inspections;

(b)

information on manure treatment, including further processing and utilisation of the solid fractions, and provide detailed data on characteristics of treatment systems, their efficiency and composition of treated manure, as well as final destination of solid fractions;

(c)

maps showing areas with low organic matter content, as well as the measures taken in order to encourage the use of the stabilised solid fraction on soils with low organic matter content, as referred to in Article 5(2);

(d)

the methodologies to assess the composition of treated manure, the variations in composition and treatment efficiency for each farm benefiting from individual derogation, referred to in Article 5(3);

(e)

the inventory of ammonia and other emissions from manure treatment, referred to in Article 5(4);

(f)

the established protocol to measure electrical conductivity and maps showing areas affected by salinisation, referred to in Article 6(12);

(g)

the methodologies to verify the compatibility of granted derogations with the capacity of manure treatment plants, referred to in Article 8(1);

(h)

the methodologies to verify the compatibility of each granted derogation with the authorised water use in the farm benefiting from the derogation, referred to in Article 8(2);

(i)

maps showing the percentage of farms, percentage of livestock and percentage of agricultural land covered by individual derogations and maps showing local land use, as well as data on crop rotations and agricultural practices in derogation farms, referred to in Article 10(1);

(j)

the results of water monitoring, including information on water quality trends for ground and surface waters, as well as the impact on derogation on water quality as referred to in Article 10(2);

(k)

the list of most vulnerable water bodies, referred to in Article 10(3);

(l)

summary and evaluation of data obtained from the monitoring sites referred to in Article 10(4).