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Other phosphate excretions not coordinated with Brussels
The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LVVN) has not coordinated the adjustment to nitrogen excretions in the Fertilizers Act with the European Commission for 2023 and 2024. The Ministry's director of legislation wrote this in a letter to a livestock farmer.
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This letter, which is also in the possession of the editors of BoerenbusinessThis is surprising. The normal procedure is for such changes, which can have consequences for both the environment and competition, to be reported in Brussels.
Phosphate rights were introduced in 2018. Subsequently, the nitrogen excretion allowances for organically raised dairy cows and calves were initially amended and, as of 2023, brought into line with those for conventionally raised dairy cows and calves. In 2024, the nitrogen correction factor for gaseous losses in dairy cows was adjusted.
The Ministry reports that these changes did not involve notifiable (technical) regulations and that therefore there was no contact with the European Commission about these changes.
Action now appears to have been taken.