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Articles 4(2) and 5(2)(b)
As regards any grassland which is subject to the agreement, requirements to the effect that—
(a)the farmer shall—
(i)ensure that water is maintained at marsh level between 1st January and 30th April in any given year so as to create shallow pools;
(ii)maintain dyke levels at no lower than 45 centimetres below marsh level between 1st June and 31st October in any given year, and
(iii)begin to raise the water level to winter level no later than 1st November in any given year;
(b)the farmer shall not apply any fertiliser to the land;
(c)the farmer shall not graze the land with livestock between 1st November in any given year and the following 15th May;
(d)the farmer shall graze the land with livestock between 16th May and 31st October in any given year but not so as to cause poaching, overgrazing or undergrazing; and
(e)the farmer shall not exceed a grazing density of one bovine animal per 0.75 hectares of the land between 16th May and 30th June in any given year.
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