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
Control of Pollution (Silage, Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. No. 319 of 2003).
LEX-FAOC106628
Regional Agriculture 30/06/2003
Regulation amending Regulation establishing list of substances particularly harmful to water environment for which a permission is required to introduce industrial effluent water into sewerage devices.
LEX-FAOC073664
National waste 15/12/2008
Order No. 893 on subsidies of environmentally-friendly management of wetlands.
LEX-FAOC088009
National 22/09/2005
Decree-Law No. 236/98 establishing water quality standards.
LEX-FAOC092144
National 01/08/1998
Directive 97/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain components and characteristics of two or three-wheel motor vehicles.
LEX-FAOC099008
National Transport 17/06/1997
Law No. 9/2010 - Water Law of Galicia.
LEX-FAOC069506
Regional 04/11/2010
Fertilizers Act, 2009 (No. 9 of 2009).
LEX-FAOC063487
National Agriculture 12/05/2009
Regulation on the types of fertilizers, the conditions for ammonium nitrate fertilizers of high nitrogen concentration, method of labeling and packaging of fertilizers.
LEX-FAOC096008
National Agriculture 19/06/2015
Order of the Flemish Government regulating the voluntary, complete and definitive cessation of the production of all animal manure from pigs.
LEX-FAOC161297
Regional Agriculture
Royal Decree determining the sectoral conditions for the discharge of wastewater from the flax roughage sector into ordinary surface waters and public sewers.
LEX-FAOC069901
National waste 02/08/1986

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