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 (Applications and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. No. 284 of 2002).
LEX-FAOC062064
Regional 20/07/2001
Regulation on maximum allowable concentration of pollutants in the atmospheric air in the area of growing of forest forming species.
LEX-FAOC033613
National 10/05/1995
Decree of the State Minister of Environmental Affairs No. KEP-35/MENLH/7/1995 on the Clean-River Programme.
LEX-FAOC149156
National 25/07/1995
Agricultural Research and Water Resources Center (Regulation No. 13 of 1981).
LEX-FAOC167701
National Agriculture 17/03/1981
Regulation on the manner and procedure of taking samples for laboratory testing of lettuce or spinach (nitrates).
LEX-FAOC016373
National Agriculture 17/01/2014
Regulation regarding Muğla Sitki Koçman University agricultural research and practice center.
LEX-FAOC093758
National Agriculture 15/05/2016
Law No. 4 of 1994 on Environment.
LEX-FAOC018380
National 03/02/1994
Rates for pollution charges for the discharge of pollutants into water bodies and into the soil.
LEX-FAOC136212
National 28/02/1994
Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czeck Republic on the implementation of the common environmental project Waste Water Treatment Plants in the North of Bohemia.
LEX-FAOC113210
International waste 19/12/1994
Decree No. 20 of Chief Sanitary Inspector validating Hygienic norms GN 2.1.6.1338-03 setting maximum allowable concentration of pollutants in the atmospheric air of inhabited areas.
LEX-FAOC115640
National 28/05/2004

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