Lithuanian experience in negotiating and implementing Nitrates directive

2004 metų rugsėjo mėnesio 13 diena

The Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania

Proposed discrete nitrate vulnerable zones

•The total area of the proposed nitrate vulnerable zones was 91,2 percent of the Lithuanian territory

•The part of Lithuania draining to the Curonian Lagoon, via Nemunas and tributaries

•River basin of direct tributaries of the Baltic Sea

•The areas draining into vulnerable zones in Latvia, i.e. areas so designated by Latvian authorities