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
Decree No. 01-10.32.4-7 of the Ministry of Public Health and Welfare validating state sanitary and epidemiological standards of contents of nitrates in foodstuffs of vegetable origin.
LEX-FAOC132544
National Agriculture 29/06/2005
Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (No. 46 of 2015).
LEX-FAOC159576
National 10/12/2015
Decree No. 26 of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance promulgating the Measures for the Administration of Commercial Reserves of Chemical Fertilizers during Off-seasons.
LEX-FAOC150025
National Agriculture 12/01/2005
Order No. 83-p of the Minister of Natural resources and Environmental Protection on maximum emission limits.
LEX-FAOC145314
National 21/03/2002
Swedish Environmental Code (1998:808).
LEX-FAOC139387
National
Ordonnance concernant l’élimination des sous-produits animaux (OESPA).
LEX-FAOC114969
National Agriculture
Resolution No. 567 of 2015 of Georgian Government on Permitted Maximum Limits of Certain Contaminants in Food
LEX-FAOC024702
National Agriculture
Public Health (Offensive Trades: Storage, Treatment and Distribution of Animal Excreta and Faecal Matter) Regulations 1966.
LEX-FAOC041726
Regional Agriculture, Waste
Resolución Nº 404 - Por la cual se establece nueva reglamentación de los procesos de la producción orgánica de origen vegetal.
LEX-FAOC098254
National Agriculture 12/12/2006
CIS cooperation agreement in the sphere of hydrometeorology.
LEX-FAOC089119
International 08/02/1992

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