Dataset Direct Download Service (WFS): Rivers subject to Weed Bands — Hautes-Pyrénées

Rivers for cross-compliance: these are watercourses or portions of watercourses to be bordered by buffer strips under good agricultural and environmental conditions (GAEC), defined by prefectural decree. The buffer strip, commonly referred to as grassy strip, is a strip consisting of grass, shrub, or tree cover, as stipulated in Article 2 of the Ministerial Order of 13/07/2010. Article D615-45 of the Rural Code states that the buffer strip must be at least 5 m wide. The rivers, subject to weed strips, are defined on the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées by: 1/by Article 1 of the Ministerial Decree of 13 July 2010, out of the Adour Plain. This order on the rules on good agricultural and environmental condition is adopted for the application of Articles D615-46 and 48 of the Rural Code. 2/by prefectural decree of 18 September 2006, on the plain of Adour. The Ministerial Order of 24/04/2015 confirms this identification of rivers subject to a buffer strip, within the framework of GAEC, in the Hautes-Pyrénées department. This translates differently in terms of genealogy of data on the Adour plain and out of Adour plain. This layer of information consists of the most complete representation of streams, used by the trade service, including streams subject to weed strips as well as those that are not. In order to have the only representation of streams subject to weed strips, the distinction is made according to the attribute “BE_required”.