NVZ

Both bovine TB and the incoming NVZ regulations would and already do have serious impacts on farmers' mental health and the wider economic consequences would be felt as added pressure, FUW president Glyn Roberts stressed.

"Areas of Northumberland and Cumbria have been removed from previous NVZ areas."

Within NVZs mandatory measures are established regarding sufficient manure storage capacity, timing and location of manure application, and maximum application limits of 170 kg N/ha.

The validation experts' participation was solicited through contacts gained from the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Ziekenhuizen (Dutch Association for Hospitals, NVZ) public database as well as through the business network of Negometrix.

They are calling for new NVZ designations to be overturned, especially at a time of financial stress in the farming sector.

The Northern Volcanic Zone (NVZ) of Colombia is defined by a narrow volcanic arc located above the Benioffzone that overlies the steeply subducting slab dipping about 45[degrees] to the east (Ojeda and Havskov, 2001) (Figure 5).

Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths announced the plans in a written statement in November last year, after which the FUW claimed that the majority of the plans had simply "been cut-and-pasted" from NVZ rules currently affecting just 2.3% of Wales.

"We are pleased that Defra expects the Environment Agency to apply the NVZ rules flexibly and with discretion following what has been an exceptional summer's weather.

FARMING unions are to seek delays to the NVZ appeal process after the industry was given just weeks to contest complex new land designations.