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Dutch farmers will be able to use, instead of 170 kg of slurry or manure nitrogen per hectare during years 2014-2017, 250 or 230 (depending on the location) kg of nitrogen per hectare and year.

A new report from the Expert Panel on Nitrogen and Food, of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen, quantifies for the first time how much our food choices affect pollutant nitrogen emissions, climate change and land-use across Europe.

The environmental impact assessment entails the systematic collection and analysis of information about the environmental effects of a project by the developer.

New FAO estimates of greenhouse gas data show that emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past fifty years.

The Council decided not to oppose the adoption of a Commission's regulation amending regulation 142/2011 as regards the use of animal by-products and derived products as a fuel in combustion plants.

The new derogation will run to the end of 2017.

Around 200 types of project are covered by the Environmental Impact Assessment directive (EIA) – from bridges, ports, motorways and landfill sites to intensive rearing of poultry or pigs.

The new derogation allows farmers to exceed the limit of 170 kg of organic nitrogen per hectare set down in the Nitrates Regulations, up to a maximum of 250 kg per hectare, subject to adherence to stricter rules.

Two years after the publication of the BPEX Roadmap, the reduction in climate change potential (carbon footprint) already achieved is beyond expectation, far exceeding the overall 2020 target.

The official approval of these products obtained from agricultural methanisation will allow the authorisation of their market entry in all the national territory.

The number of farms declined by 12% between 2007 and 2010.

The French Ministers of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, and of Agriculture, Food and Forestry have signed two decrees for strengthening the battle against the contamination by nitrates.