But now, for farms that are planning and nitrate compliant, the government will pay 40% of the first €80,000 (£64,000), rising to 60% for young entrants. Mr O’Toole doesn’t believe NVZ ...

42 Why NVZs? In 1991 an EU directive set a 50mg/litre limit on nitrate in water. The UK took this to mean drinking water and designated 8% of land area as an NVZ to protect drinking water ...

SELF REGULATION and monitoring by farmers in Dumfries and Galloway is sufficient to handle any nitrate pollution problems - so there ... to support the withdrawal of plans to introduce a new NVZ in ...

The new regulation has taken many farmers by surprise, especially when previous reports by Natural Resources Wales suggested the NVZ area in Wales should rise from 2.3 per cent of land area to ...

Scotland currently has 14% of its total landmass designated as an NVZ where the restrictions on nitrate inputs, coupled with the closed periods on slurry application and paperwork burden ...

The management plan will essentially cover three areas with the consultant briefed to: Review the NVZ (Nitrate Vulnerable Zone) regulation including, ground water, sewage sludge and soil ...

It will argue the way the Welsh government handled the all-Wales nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) was unlawful. Ministers say the regulations - which control how slurry and fertilisers are used - are ...

FARMER Elwyn Evans was astonished when he heard his farm was to become part of a new Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ). FARMER Elwyn Evans was astonished when he heard his farm was to become part of a ...

WHEN Elwyn Evans heard his Anglesey farm was to be subsumed into a new Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ), he was astonished. The cause of the ruling was Llyn Caron, a small lake at the foot of his ...

With pressure from the European Union to tackle the problem of nitrate pollution mounting ... Looking at the NVZ map, Bauer admitted it threw up a very mixed bag of results, with some inexplicable ...