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Hanover (dpa / lni) - The state government wants to redesign the areas particularly affected by agricultural fertilization.

To this end, the Environment and Agriculture Departments are presenting the relevant draft ordinance to the state cabinet today.

According to a draft presented in November, these “red areas” have shrunk from 39 percent of the agricultural area in Lower Saxony to 31 percent.

The background to the reassessment is the new fertilizer ordinance that came into force in the spring and provides for restrictions in the particularly polluted areas.

Therefore a new administrative regulation had to be drawn up.

It is intended to take greater account of the polluter pays principle, so that only those farms in the affected areas should be subject to fertilizer restrictions that are responsible for excessively high nitrate levels.

Press release from November 25th