Joint Order No. D1-367/3D-342 of the Minister of Environment and of the Minister Agriculture validating Requirements for Manure and Slurry Management.

This Joint Order has as its purpose setting requirements for handling manure and slurry. The provisions of these Requirements shall be binding on natural and legal persons who hold livestock and/ or use manure and/or slurry to fertilize fields, and supervisory authorities. Manure and/or slurry must be stored in such a way as to avoid surface and groundwater pollution. Manure and/or slurry must be stored in barns, manure storage facilities, slurry storage facilities and/or manure stacks at the barn. Also, solid manure can be stored in stacks outdoors under the requirements set out in item 16 of the description of requirements. Persons with storage facilities for liquid manure and/or slurry must apply environmental air pollution abatement measures: roof coverings, various floating coverings (solid manure, shredded straw, wood, plastic, expanded clay granules, 2-3 mm thick layer of oil and others) and/or other best available techniques or scientifically reasonable measures. Nitrogen entering the soil during the calendar year (manure, slurry and grazing livestock) may not exceed 170 kg per hectare. It is prohibited to spread manure and/or slurry from 15 June until 1 August, except for fertilization of fallows, meadows, pastures and areas where winter crops will be grown.