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
Regulation of protection of water against agricultural nitrate pollution.
LEX-FAOC169935
National Agriculture 23/07/2016
Order No. 893 on subsidies of environmentally-friendly management of wetlands.
LEX-FAOC088009
National 22/09/2005
Arrêté 2007- 0362 /MAEP/D-CAB/SGM//DRH/DP/SA du 30 octobre 2007 portant fixation des teneurs maximales pour certains contaminants dans les denrées alimentaires en Republique du Benin.
LEX-FAOC170135
National Agriculture 30/10/2007
Law On environmental impact assessment" (1998)."
LEX-FAOC150910
National
Sanitary Norms and Regulations related to sanitary water conservation zones of sources of water supply and utility and drinking water pipelines (No. 2.1.4.027-95).
LEX-FAOC122965
National 10/04/1995
Organic Agriculture Act.
LEX-FAOC134206
National Agriculture
Marine Pollution Act (No. 14 of 1974).
LEX-FAOC116115
National
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
Resolution No. 030/16 / ANA - Classification of the marine-coastal water body.
LEX-FAOC167620
National 25/01/2016
Publica la Resolución Nº 374-2015 (COMIECO-LXXIV), Reglamento Técnico Centroamericano RTCA 65.05.54:15 sobre Fertilizantes y Enmiendas de Uso Agrícola.
LEX-FAOC077188
National Agriculture 04/12/2015

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