Waters Protection Ordinance (WPO) (WPO)
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Art. 22 Animal husbandry farms
The following are deemed to be animal husbandry farms (Art. 14 WPA): a. farms and farming co-operatives that keep livestock; b. other enterprises involved in commercial animal husbandry; enterprises which keep zoo and circus animals or individual draft or riding animals or pets are excepted.
Art. 23 Livestock units (LU)
The calculation for converting the number of livestock on any enterprise into LU (Art. 14 para. 4 WPA) is based on the quantity of manure produced by them annually. For one LU, this quantity is taken as containing a total of 105 kg of nitrogen and 15 kg of phosphorus.
Art. 24 Normal local farming area
1 The normal local farming area (Art. 14 para. 4 WPA) is the agricultural land located within 6 km by road from the livestock buildings in which the farm manure is produced. 2 In order to take account of local farming conditions, the cantonal authorities may reduce or extend this limit by a maximum of 2 km.
Para. 1 — Amended by Annex 9 No 2 of the Direct Payments Ordinance of 23 Oct. 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 4145).
Art. 25 Exceptions to the requirements relating to agricultural land
1 Farms that keep poultry or horses and farms serving the public interest need not have their own or leased agricultural land on which at least half of the farm manure accumulating in the enterprise can be used if it is guaranteed that the farm manure will be used by an organisation or another farm. 2 ... 3 Farms serving the public interest (Art. 14 para. 7 let. b WPA) are: a. farms that serve experimental, research or development purposes (research institutes, university farms, performance testing institutions, insemination stations, etc.); b. pig farms that cover at least 25 per cent of the energy needs of pigs with food by-products that come from milk processing; c. pig farms that cover at least 40 per cent of the energy needs of pigs with food by-products that do not come from milk processing; d. pig breeding enterprises that cover at least 40 per cent of the energy needs of pigs with food by-products that come both from milk processing and not from milk processing. 4 In mixed anim
Para. 1 — Amended by Annex 9 No 2 of the Direct Payments Ordinance of 23 Oct. 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 4145). Para. 2 — Repealed by Annex 9 No 2 of the Direct Payments Ordinance of 23 Oct. 2013, with effect from 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 4145). Para. 3 let. b — Amended by No II of the O of 27 Oct. 2010, in force since 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 5881). See also the Transitional Provision to this amendment at the end of the text. Para. 3 let. c — Amended by No III of the O of 25 May 2011, in
Art. 26 and 27
Repealed by Annex 9 No 2 of the Direct Payments Ordinance of 23 Oct. 2013, with effect from 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 4145).
Art. 28 Inspection of storage facilities for farm manure and liquid digestate
1 The cantonal authorities shall ensure that storage facilities for farm manure and liquid digestate are regularly inspected; the frequency of the inspections shall correspond to the risk of pollution to the waters. 2 The following shall be inspected: a. whether the prescribed storage capacity is available; b. whether the storage facilities (including pipes) leak; c. whether facilities are in working order; d. whether the facilities are operated in accordance with the regulations.
Art. 28 — Amended by Annex 9 No 2 of the Direct Payments Ordinance of 23 Oct. 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 4145). Para. 1 — Amended by Annex 9 No 2 of the Direct Payments Ordinance of 23 Oct. 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 4145).
