The supervision of the Environment, Nature and Town and Country Planning Office and the task of environmental planning is assigned by this Decree to the Minister of Housing, Town and Country and the Environment.
The scope of this Decree is to implement provisions of the Act containing rules regarding the emission of ammoniac from animal keeping premises belonging to the livestock sector so as to reduce negative effects caused by emission of ammoniac produced by agricultural enterprises. The Decree prescribes maximum emission values for various types of animal keeping. If animals, for which a maximum emission value is indicated in the Schedule, are kept, no animal keeping system shall be used with an emission factor higher than the value indicated in the Schedule.
This Regulation, made under the Fertilizing Substances Act, makes provision for the implementation of article 5, forth comma of the Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources. It lays down minimum norms for the size of storage capacity for fertilizing substances of animal origin.
Implements: Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources. (1991-12-12)
The amendment of the Fertilizing Substances Act concern some minor and technical corrections of the reduction norms, forfeit rules and mineral levies in the framework of the fertilizing substances production arrangement and some changes regarding the fertilizing substances disposal agreements.
Amends: Act containing rules relative to the trade in and the disposal of fertilizing substances (Fertilizing Substances Act). (2012-03-19)
This amendment of the Fertilizing Substances Act concerns some practical improvements so as to take away obstacles to the merger of pig breeding enterprises in relation with allocation of fertilizer production quotas.
Amends: Act containing rules relative to the trade in and the disposal of fertilizing substances (Fertilizing Substances Act). (2012-03-19)
The amendments, in particular those of the Environment Protection Act, concern the disposal of waste matters. Article 10.55 concerns the collection, transport and processing of hazardous waste. The Act on Pollution of Surface Waters concerns information that must be notified by holders of permits to process waste.
This Decree provides criteria for judging if a project for the restructuring of polluted soil must be carried out completely by its owner/polluter, or a limited restructuring which allows isolation and control of the pollution suffices. The criteria balance costs of restructuring against the need to restructure the soil completely for the safeguarding of the health of men, animals, and plants. Some rules for limited restructuring are provided. The balancing of criteria does not apply to pollution soil under or near surface waters. (3 articles)
This Decree, proposed by the Minister of Agriculture, nature Conservation and Fisheries, indicates soil-type areas for purposes of the Fertilizing Substances Act. Land is classified as ‘filtration sensitive soil’.
Implements: Act containing rules relative to the trade in and the disposal of fertilizing substances (Fertilizing Substances Act). (2012-03-19)
Amendments of three important environment protection laws relative to the redistribution of tasks of law enforcement with the public administration.
Amends: Act containing rules relative to protection of the soil (Soil Protection Act). (2010-07-19)
Amends: Act containing provisions concerning general matters of environmental hygiene (Environment Management Act). (2012-03-19)
This Decree provides for exceptions on the reduction of pig rights and poultry rights in the case of transfer of such rights due to relocation of the pig or poultry breeding activity to another farm or a relocation within the same farm. These rights are related to the right to pollute by means of manure.
Amends: Decree No. 417 of 1998 relative to the restructuring of pig breeding enterprises. (1998)
Amends: Decree No. 599 of 2000 containing rules relative to implementation of a system of poultry rights based on the Fertilising Substances Act. (2000-12-18)
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