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
Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2012.
LEX-FAOC030333
National 2012
Arrêté relatif à la constitution des dossiers mentionnés aux articles 4, 5, 20 et 22 du décret nº 89-3 du 3 janvier 1989 modifié concernant les eaux destinées à la consommation humaine, à l'exclusion des eaux minérales.
LEX-FAOC028007
National 24/03/1998
Environmental Quality (Control of Emission from Diesel Engines) Regulations 1996, PU (A) 429.
LEX-FAOC054804
National Transport 1996
Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) Regulations 2005 (B.R. No. 35 of 2005).
LEX-FAOC149225
Regional Transport 03/10/2005
Measures for the archival administration of local standards for environmental quality and pollutant discharge (2010).
LEX-FAOC141431
National 08/02/2010
Decree No. 6 of 2002 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Water Management on pollution standards of surface waters used for potable water abstraction or destined to be a potable water basis, as well as of surface waters marked out for assuring the essential conditions of fishes, and on the control of these standards.
LEX-FAOC126041
National 05/11/2002
Order PRE / 77/2008 - National Plan to Reduce Emissions from Large Combustion Facilities.
LEX-FAOC087299
National industry 17/01/2008
Law on air protection.
LEX-FAOC024695
National
Order of the Walloon Government establishing a catalog of waste.
LEX-FAOC128608
Regional waste
Décret accordant un crédit destiné à soutenir la mise en conformité des installations de stockage des engrais de ferme exigée par la loi fédérale du 24 janvier 1991 sur la protection des eaux.
LEX-FAOC123291
Regional Agriculture 04/03/1997

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