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

1. (a)

   ‘farms’ means agricultural 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 4 years);

4. (d)

   ‘late maturing maize’ means maize class FAO 600-700, planted from mid March to the beginning of April, with a growing cycle of at least 145-150 days;

5. (e)

   ‘maize or sorghum followed by winter herbage’ means medium-late or early maturing maize or sorghum followed by winter herbage, such as Italian ryegrass, barley, triticale or winter rye;

6. (f)

   ‘winter cereal followed by summer herbage’ means winter wheat, winter barley or triticale, followed by summer herbage, such as maize, sorghum, Setaria or Panicum sp.;

7. (g)

   ‘crops with high nitrogen demand and long growing season’ means grassland, late maturing maize, maize or sorghum followed by winter herbage and winter cereal followed by summer herbage;

8. (h)

   ‘cattle manure’ means livestock manure excreted by cattle, including during grazing or in processed form;

9. (i)

   ‘manure treatment’ means the processing of pig manure into two fractions, a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, performed in order to improve land application and enhance nitrogen and phosphorus recovery;

10. (j)

    ‘treated manure’ means the liquid fraction resulting from pig manure treatment, with a minimum nitrogen to phosphate ratio (N/P₂O₅) of 2,5;

11. (k)

    ‘treated manure with nitrogen removal’ means treated manure with a nitrogen content of less than 30 % compared to nitrogen content of the raw pig manure;

12. (l)

    ‘soils with low Organic Matter content’ means soils with organic carbon content lower than 2 % in the top 30 centimetres of soil;

13. (m)

    ‘non-saline and low salinity soils’ means those soils with electrical conductivity on saturated soil paste extract ECe < 4 mS/cm or electrical conductivity on aqueous extract with 1:2 soil/water ratio EC 1:2 < 1 ms/cm, or areas defined as certainly not affected by risk of salinisation, as indicated on the soil map defined at regional level;

14. (n)

    ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ means the percentage of total nitrogen applied in livestock manure form which is available to crops in the year of application.