Official regulation

Appendix I

Products for the improvement of the ground and the manure

Designation Description, requirements as regards composition, condition of use
Manure
  • Products made with the mixture of animals' excrements and vegetable matter
  • Only source of extensive breeding within the meaning of article 6, paragraph 4 of the EC regulation n°3669/93
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
  • Indications of animal species
Dried manure and poultry dehydrated manure
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
  • Indications of animal species
  • Only source of extensive breeding within the meaning of article 6, paragraph 4 of the EC regulation n°2328/91
Compost of solid excrements of animals, including the poultry manure and made up manure
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
  • Indications of animal species
  • Source of breeding except ground is prohibited
Liquid excrements of animals (liquid manure, urine...)
  • Use after controlled fermentation and/or suitable dilution
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
  • Indications of animal species
  • Source of breeding except ground is prohibited
Dig peat
  • Limited use to the horticulture (truck farming, flower farming, tree cultivation, seedbed)
Compost of mushroom beds
  • The initial composition of the substrate must be limited to products of this list
Dejection of worms (earthworm's compost) and insects  
Mix perforated vegetable matters
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Products or by-products of animal origin mentioned below
  • flour of blood
  • powders shoe
  • powders horn
  • powders bone or powders degeletinized bone
  • ivory black
  • fish meal
  • meat meal
  • flour of feather
  • tease
  • shred
  • hairs
  • dairy products
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Products and organic by-products of vegetable origin for manure (for example : flour of oilcake, cocoa hull, maltroolets...)  
Algae and products of algae
  • Obtain only by :

I) physical processing including dehydration, freezing and crushing
II) extraction with water, or with acid and/or basic aqueous solutions
III) fermentation

Sawdust's and shavings
  • Chemically untreated wood after demolition
Perfored barks
  • Containing chemically untreated wood after demolition
Wood ashes
  • Containing chemically untreated wood after demolition
Tender natural phosphate
  • Product defined by directive n°76/116/EC of the Council, modified by the directive n°89/284/EC
  • Lower or equal cadmium content with 90mg/kg of P205
Aluminocalcic phosphate
  • Product defined by directive n°76/116/EC of the Council, modified by the directive n°89/284/EC
  • Lower or equal cadmium content with 90mg/kg of P205
  • Limited use on the basic ground (ph>7,5)
Phosphatig slags
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Raw potash salt
(for example : kainite, silvinite...)
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Sulphate potassium containing magnesium salt
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
  • Derived from the raw potash salt
Residuary liquor and extracts of residuary liquor
  • Exclusion of the ammoniacal residuary liquors
Carbonate calcium of natural origin
(for example : chalk, marl, ground calcic rock, maërl, phosphate chalk
 
Carbonate calcium and magnesium of natural origin
(for example : magnesian chalk, ground magnesian calcic rock)
 
Epsom salt
For example : kiesirite)
  • Only of natural origin
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Solution of calcium chloride
  • Foliar processing of the apple trees after highlighting of a calcium deficiency
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Sulphate calcium (gypsum)
  • Product defined by the directive n°76/116/EC modified by the directive n°89/284/EC
  • Only of natural origin
Sulphur-elementary
  • Product defined by the directive n°76/116/EC modified by the directive n°89/284/EC
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Trace elements
  • Elements included in directive n°89/530/EC modified by the directive n°89/284/EC
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Sodium chloride
  • Only rock salt
  • Need recognised by the organisation of control or the controlling authority
Powders rock  

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