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
Circular No. 04/2015/TT-BNNPTNT on Guidelines for Government Decree No. 187/2013/ND-CP of 20 November 2013 on the Law on International Trade in Goods and Commercial Agency, Trading, Processing and Transit of goods with foreign countries in the fields of: Agriculture, Forestry and Aquaculture.
LEX-FAOC154195
National Agriculture 12/02/2015
Ministerial decree defining the mandatory technical requirements for livestock effluent storage infrastructures.
LEX-FAOC141126
Regional Agriculture 18/02/2008
Regulation on procedures for the measurement of emissions from stationary sources.
LEX-FAOC047284
National 01/08/2013
Royal Decree determining the sectoral conditions for the discharge of wastewater from calcium sulphite pulp mills into ordinary surface water and public sewers.
LEX-FAOC117899
National waste 13/10/1986
Décret nº 2006-058/PR fixant la liste des travaux, activités et documents de planification soumis à étude d'impact sur l'environnement et les principales règles de cette étude.
LEX-FAOC067325
National 05/07/2006
Control of Agricultural Chemicals Act (Cap. 29).
LEX-FAOC005726
National Agriculture
Ley Nº 1.163 - Ley de protección de la salud humana, animal y vegetal, y del ambiente, a través de la correcta utilización de los productos fitosanitarios.
LEX-FAOC015380
National Agriculture 16/11/1995
Decree on anti-pollution authorization.
LEX-FAOC157019
Regional
Law of the Republic of Kyrgystan on Water.
LEX-FAOC153558
National 14/01/1994
Loi n°006-2013/AN portant Code de l’Environnement du Burkina Faso.
LEX-FAOC115787
National 02/04/2013

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