Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 16 January 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how his Department takes into account farmers' views on the proposed new nitrate vulnerable zones legislation.
The development of proposals for revising the NVZ regulations took account of farmers' views from a series of workshops held over winter 2005-06 and extensive dialogue with the National Farmers Union, the Country Land and Business Association and the Tenant Farmers' Association during the two-year period up to August 2007.
Farmers have also had the opportunity to comment on the proposals through a public consultation that closed on
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