Commission Implementing Decision of 27 February 2014 on granting a derogation requested by Ireland pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (notified under document C(2014) 1194) (Only the English text is authentic) (2014/112/EU)

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

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

(a)

‘grassland farms’ means holdings where 80 % or more of the agricultural area available for manure application is grass;

(b)

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

(c)

‘grass’ means permanent grassland or temporary grassland (temporary implying leys of less than four years);

(d)

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