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
Normative Instruction No. 35 regulating registration, packaging, labelling of soil corrective substances and other products used in agriculture.
LEX-FAOC144752
National Agriculture 04/07/2006
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan – EPANB.
LEX-FAOC169595
National 2015
Water Pollution (Code of Good Agricultural Practice) (Jersey) Order 2015 (R&O.95/2015).
LEX-FAOC043075
Regional Agriculture 07/08/2015
Plan d’Action du Gouvernement pour la Mise en œuvre du Programme du Président de la République.
LEX-FAOC145758
National Agriculture 2012
Decision No. 187/2007/QD-TTg approving the scheme on environmental protection in the basin of the Dong Nai river system up to 2020.
LEX-FAOC123606
Regional 03/12/2007
Drinking Water Management Act.
LEX-FAOC145474
Regional
Governmental Decree No. 128 validating the Regulation on protection of surface water.
LEX-FAOC049793
National 14/03/2016
Water Act 2003 (No. 7 of 2003).
LEX-FAOC132045
National 05/03/2003
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
Arrêté conjoint du Ministre chargé l’Aménagement du Territoire, de l’Eau et de l’Environnement n°2028-03 du 10 Ramadan 1424 (5 Novembre 2003) fixant les normes de qualité des eaux piscicoles.
LEX-FAOC081911
National Agriculture: Aquaculture 05/11/2003

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