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
Order No. 398/2015 establishing the environmental information requirements for livestock activity.
LEX-FAOC141376
National Agriculture 05/11/2015
Water Pollution Control (Effluent and Waste Water) Regulations (Cap. 204).
LEX-FAOC074755
National Industry
Regulation on limit values of hazardous and harmful substances in waters which, after purification from the public sewage, are discharged into the natural recipient.
LEX-FAOC172941
National Waste 29/06/2007
Decree laying down technical provisions for reusing effluent waste waters, as per article 99, paragraph 1 of Legislative Decree No. 152 of 2006.
LEX-FAOC143466
National waste 02/05/2006
Ministerial Decree No. 56 on approval of rules regarding the use, width and boundaries of water conservation zones and their coastal zones.
LEX-FAOC082621
National 24/03/2000
National Plan on Climate Change (PNMC).
LEX-FAOC030330
National Agriculture 2008-12
Resolution No. 5/1 establishing the Agricultural Medicines Committee.
LEX-FAOC027837
National Agriculture 12/01/2009
Ley Nº 18.755 - Normas sobre el Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero.
LEX-FAOC041240
National Agriculture 23/10/1988
Protection Policy for Lakeshores, Riverbanks, Littoral Zones and Floodplains (c. Q-2, r. 35).
LEX-FAOC119829
Regional
Fertilizers Act 1994.
LEX-FAOC106252
National Agriculture

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