Nitrogen Policies

 

This database compiles 2,726 nitrogen policies from 186 countries, sourced from FAOLEX data as made available via the ECOLEX database, originally provided by Kanter et al, 2020  and subsequently extended for South Asia by the GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub by Yang et al. 2022 (966 N policies). The database is searchable by country, keyword, date, policy instrument, economic sector and geographical scale.

References

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (n.d.). FAOLEX database. https://www.fao.org/faolex

United Nations Environment Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations & International Union for Conservation of Nature. (n.d.). ECOLEX: The gateway to environmental law. https://www.ecolex.org/

Kanter et al. (2020) Gaps and opportunities in nitrogen pollution policies around the world. Nat Sustain, 3, pp.956–963.

Anastasia L Yang et al. (2022) Policies to combat nitrogen pollution in South Asia: gaps and opportunities. Environ. Res. Lett. 17 025007.


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Policy Title ECOLEX/FAOLEX Ref ID Scale Sector Date of Text
Drainage (Jersey) Law 2005 (No. L. 3 of 2005).
LEX-FAOC153860
National Waste
Decree No. 113 of the Ministry of Public Health validating the Regulation on maximum allowable concentration limits of pollutants and relatively safe level of hazardous substances in the atmospheric air of public recreational areas.
LEX-FAOC155277
National 08/11/2016
Environmental Charges Act.
LEX-FAOC076028
National
Regulation on plants and facilities requiring a mandatory assessment of the impact on the environment and plants that can be built and activated only if they have environmental permits.
LEX-FAOC103208
Regional 09/05/2006
Environment Protection (Standards) Regulations.
LEX-FAOC102321
National Waste
Decree No. 14 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection regarding some issues of the issuance of authorization for special water uses.
LEX-FAOC038588
National 02/04/2003
2014-2024 National Environmental Policy and Strategy.
LEX-FAOC138633
National 2014
Regulation on how to provide the data on plant nutrition products that are produced and placed on the market.
LEX-FAOC099378
National Agriculture 02/08/2010
Decision No. 60/2004/QD-BCN approving the Scheme on Development of the chemical industry till 2010 in service of agricultural and rural industrialization and modernization"."
LEX-FAOC030886
National Agriculture 15/07/2004
Regulation on penalties concerning introduction of gas and dust into the air.
LEX-FAOC069252
National 07/07/2011

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