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
Plant Protection Regulations ( Settlement on the Importation and Selling of Chemical Preparations ), 1994
LEX-FAOC105336
National Agriculture 06/10/1994
Environmental Protection Regulation, 2008.
LEX-FAOC086793
Regional Agriculture
Notification on sampling of surface water, groundwater and sediment and biological sampling.
LEX-FAOC039867
National 21/02/2015
Implementing Regulation of the Act on fertilizers and soil improvers in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.
LEX-FAOC163941
International Agriculture 21/12/2004
Ordinance of the Prime Minister's Office on Effluent Standards (No. 35 of 1971).
LEX-FAOC114439
National 1971
Resolución Nº 710/2012 - Creación del Proyecto de Medición y Evaluación de Emisiones de Óxido Nitroso en la Agricultura.
LEX-FAOC037796
National Agriculture 16/08/2012
Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage I) Designation Order 2000 (S.I. No. 3049 of 2000).
LEX-FAOC158213
Regional Agriculture 13/11/2000
Wildlife Conservation Act, 2010 (Act No. 716).
LEX-FAOC051907
National 21/10/2010
Law on public sewage disposal facilities.
LEX-FAOC118965
Regional waste
Waste Water Emission Ordinance - Stabilisers.
LEX-FAOC161631
National waste 18/07/2000

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