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 Sustain3, pp.956–963.

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
Supreme Decree No. 004-2017-MINAM ─ Approves Environmental Quality Standards (ECA) for Water.
LEX-FAOC019914
National 06/06/2017
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan II (NBSAP II) 2015-2025.
LEX-FAOC015912
National 2016-10
Loi n° 2009-967 de programmation relative à la mise en œuvre du Grenelle de l'environnement.
LEX-FAOC067467
National 03/08/2009
Guidelines for irrigation water quality (G.N. No. 617 of 1999).
LEX-FAOC077679
National 1999
Arrêté Ministériel N°4 671 du 2 avril 2013 modifiant et remplaçant l’arrêté N°7.067 du 9 août 2010 portant création, organisation de l’unité de gestion et des organes de supervision et de coordination du programme de développement des marchés agricoles et agroalimentaires du Sénégal (PDMAS).
LEX-FAOC124130
National Agriculture 02/04/2013
Water Law.
LEX-FAOC026362
National 08/05/2007
Lake and River Traffic Ordinance.
LEX-FAOC115899
National Transport 15/04/2013
Agricultural Aids Act.
LEX-FAOC167671
National Agriculture
Resolution CONAMA No. 357 providing for the classification of water bodies as well as environmental directives for their framework, conditions and standards for effluent discharge.
LEX-FAOC103093
National
Resolution No. 205 adopting Standardization No. 1993 concerning the fertilizer of calcium nitrate as a Syrian Standardization and Metrology.
LEX-FAOC036909
National Agriculture 26/07/1998

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