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 Sustain3, pp.956–963.

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
The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2015 - 2020.
LEX-FAOC130883
National 2015
Acuerdo Nº 94/97 - Reglamento general de salud ambiental.
LEX-FAOC117318
National Waste 11/06/1997
Ordonnance sur le registre des rejets de polluants et des transferts de déchets et de polluants dans les eaux usées (ORRTP).
LEX-FAOC060036
National Industry
Décret nº 2-69-317 portant création de commissions préfectorales ou provinciales des investissements agricoles et fixant la procédure d'instruction des demandes de subventions prévues par la réglementation sur les encouragements à la production agricole.
LEX-FAOC099228
National Agriculture 25/07/1969
Water Protection Zone (River Dee Catchment) Designation Order 1999 (S.I. No. 915 of 1999).
LEX-FAOC080590
Regional 19/03/1999
Order No. 863 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology validating Regulation on state registration of legal persons and individual entrepreneurs that are owners of the sources of emissions of pollutants to the atmospheric air.
LEX-FAOC036279
National 26/10/2011
Environmental Management (Licensing) Regulations (S.I. No 112 of 2013).
LEX-FAOC086641
National 01/11/2013
Decree-Law No. 645 on the establishment and duties of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Management.
LEX-FAOC155374
National 29/06/2011
Instruction on state supervision over atmospheric pollution by stationary sources.
LEX-FAOC117049
National 23/12/1999
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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