Decree No. 360 of 2001 containing rules relative to recognition of intermediaries, manure processors and exporters.

A Decree to implement in part the system of animal manure agreements provided for in Chapter V of the fertilizing Substances Act and which will be introduced in the Netherlands on 1 January 2002. This Decree consists of 31 articles which are divided into 9 Chapters: General (1); Conditions for recognition (2); The application (3); Determination of the amount of animal manure that shall be fixed together with recognition (4); Obligations (5); Extension after the granting of recognition (6); The term within which the animal manure must be disposed of by the producer (7); Administrative measures (8); Further and transitional provisions (9). Articles 5 to 8 lay down criteria for the recognition of middlemen, processors, exporters, and producers dealing in animal manure. Articles 3 and Chapter 4 provide for the determination of the amount of fertilizing substances that middlemen, processor or exporter of manure may contract in a manure agreement. Article 19 concerns the disposal of manure in countries other than The Netherlands. A recognised middleman, processor or exporter shall submit before 1 September of each year a manure disposal plan in which dealings in manure for the coming solar year are specified (sect. 23). Chapter 8 provides for administrative sanctions in the circumstance that a middleman, processor or exporters does not observe conditions laid down in Chapter 5 relating to disposal of manure and the disposal plan.