The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2008

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

    2. 2.Revocations and savings

    3. 3.Interpretation

  3. PART 2

    1. 4.General application and duties

    2. 5.Fertiliser and manure management plan

    3. 6.Storage of livestock manure

    4. 7.Storage of slurry from housed pigs and housed cattle and manure from housed poultry

    5. 8.Exclusions from storage capacity

    6. 9.Storage of solid manure

    7. 10.Temporary storage of solid manure

    8. 11.Exemptions from regulations 6(1), 7(1) and 20

    9. 12.Maximum application of nitrogen fertiliser

    10. 13.Minimum nitrogen available to crop from livestock manure

    11. 14.Annual farm limit of nitrogen in livestock manure

    12. 15.Annual field limit of nitrogen in organic manure

    13. 16.Application of nitrogen fertiliser

    14. 17.Application of chemical fertiliser

    15. 18.Application of organic manure

    16. 19.Closed period for chemical fertilisers

    17. 20.Closed periods for organic manure with high available nitrogen content

    18. 21.Closed periods – quantitative restrictions

    19. 22.Closed periods for spreading on bare ground and stubble

    20. 23.Minimum period between applications of livestock manure

    21. 24.Restriction on method of application of slurry

  4. PART 3

    1. 25.Records to be kept

    2. 26.Records to be retained

    3. 27.Inspections

    4. 28.Serving of notices

    5. 29.Appeals against notices

    6. 30.Offences – general

    7. 31.Offences by directors, etc.

  5. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Calculation of nitrogen (“N”) in livestock manure

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Quantity of cleaning water used by livestock (quantities in litres)

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Calculation of maximum nitrogen application to crops

      1. PART A Farmyard manure (FYM) – Percentage of nitrogen available to next crop following FYM applications (all crops and all soil types).

      2. PART B Poultry manure – Percentage of nitrogen available to next crop following Poultry Manure applications (use the value in brackets for grassland and winter oilseed rape cropping).

      3. PART C Cattle, Dirty Water and Pig Slurry – Percentage of nitrogen available to next crop following Cattle Slurry, Dirty Water and Pig Slurry applications (use the value in brackets for grassland and winter oilseed rape cropping).

    5. SCHEDULE 4

      Maximum quantities of organic manure with high available nitrogen content which may be applied during periods set out in regulation 21

  7. Explanatory Note