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
Lower Austria Canalization Law 1977.
LEX-FAOC156886
Regional waste
Governmental Decree No. 271 validating the Regulation on Water Protective Zones and Strips of Water Sites.
LEX-FAOC105402
National 07/07/1995
Supreme Decree No. 062/02 / AG - Provisions referring to the Revolving Fund Program of the Ministry of Agriculture.
LEX-FAOC132096
National Agriculture 18/12/2002
Ley Nº 2.175 - Ley provincial de uso de plaguicidas y agroquímicos.
LEX-FAOC014249
Regional Agriculture 02/07/1987
Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste.
LEX-FAOC136581
National waste 14/06/2006
Resuelto Nº 19/ALP - Manual de procedimientos para el Registro de Aditivos, Fertilizantes, Materias Técnicas y Plaguicidas para uso en la Agricultura.
LEX-FAOC073384
National Agriculture 22/02/2001
Regulation concerning scope and method of passing on information about air pollution.
LEX-FAOC078678
National 26/11/2002
Order No. 126 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection validating Methodical Instruction on calculation of the emission of pollutants to the atmosphere from reservoirs.
LEX-FAOC110291
National energy 03/06/1997
Regulation on the types of fertilizers, the conditions for ammonium nitrate fertilizers of high nitrogen concentration, method of labeling and packaging of fertilizers.
LEX-FAOC096008
National Agriculture 19/06/2015
Water Pollution Prevention Act (No. 138 of 1970).
LEX-FAOC121168
National

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