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abletoattain the desired halving of nitrogen losses." (Farmer's Weekly.
October, 1991).
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3. LEGISLATION, REGULATION AND POLICY
This section is summarized in Table 1. The following should be considered a
"snapshot in time" as the legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks with
respect to livestock waste management are extremely dynamic at this time in
Europe and in the U.S.A. While we cannot expect to extrapolate from any one
other jurisdictions experience directly and apply it to the Fraser Valley, the
combination of experiences elsewhere are helpful in that they provide various
policy approaches - some successful, others not.
3.1 LEGISLATION
3.1.1 FEDERAL
Federal legislation, in other jurisdictions generally, incorporates livestock waste
within wide scope environmental protection statutes and often hands off
specifics to the provincial/state or local governments for implementation, eg.:
European Community's Drinking Water Directive or the Netherlands Soil
Protection Act.
European Community
The European Community legislation is based on the 1980 Drinking Water
Directive which requires all members to observe standards established within a
five year period. The nitrate standard established was a maximum of 50mg NO3 per litre of drinking water with a recommendation for 25mg/L.
Implementation of the legislated directives has been very sensitive politically for
member countries. For example, the experience in the Flanders region of
Belguim wherein proposed new slurry application nitrate limits intended to move
toward meeting the European Community directive of 170 kg. of N/ha. in
sensitive zones recently resulted in the collapse of the coalition government.