Background Nitrogen
'Minister must find a solution for PAS detectors'
Cooperative Mobilization for the Environment (MOB) wins one nitrogen case after another. This week she wants to enforce that PAS reporters fail to comply with the Nitrogen Reduction and Nature Recovery Act (Wsn). Many farmers and their organizations are stressed about it, but the Nitrogen Claim Foundation (SSC) advises some calm. Nitrogen Minister Van der Wal is obliged to come up with a solution.
Chairman John Spithoven refers to the aforementioned wsn. He points out that it stipulates that the minister will take care of the legalization of the aforementioned PAS bottlenecks. She has not yet announced how it will be legalized. The Council of State's advice on this Act therefore states that the Act still lacks an assessment framework for legalization. Farmers Defense Force (FDF) already pointed this out last week. FDF therefore wants to enforce such an assessment framework. According to SSC, this is not necessary and it is even better to let the government do the work itself now. The minister has already taken some action. On November 10, 2021 there will be a design legalization program sent to the second room, but more is to follow.
The minister and no one else
Spithoven: "The minister is going to legalize the reporting persons and the exempted and will need three years for this. This means that it is the responsibility of the minister, and of no one else." per hectare per year for the legalization program. For this it will draw on the nitrogen registration system (SSRS) that has been in existence since May 11 and is fed from various schemes.
MOB can win even more cases
There is a chance that the court will find this all too vague and take too long and will state that it should be enforced. MOB will then win again and can continue to do so for a while. Nevertheless, the SSC advises sticking to the minister's commitments with regard to legalization. In order to 'help' the minister, SSC already held the minister liable almost a year ago in the event that this did not happen, but first and foremost there is the minister's own law that the minister must adhere to.
grazing exempt
When it comes to concerns regarding grazing and fertilising, Nitrogen Claim advises a similar attitude. The minister has stated in various letters to parliament that grazing and fertilizing are not subject to a permit or are exempt. The last time that happened in September last year.
Klaas van der Horst
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