Nitrogen Policies

 

This database compiles 2,726 nitrogen policies from 186 countries, sourced from the ECOLEX database and other databases, as originally provided for the publication 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

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 Ref ID Scale Sector Date of Text
Decreto Nº 1.449 - Reglamenta parcialmente la Ley Nº 135 de 1961.
LEX-FAOC094556
Regional 27/06/1977
Decree No. 7.269 regulating Act No. 8.361 on pollution control.
LEX-FAOC096021
Regional Waste 05/06/1981
Acuerdo Nº 746/93 – Reglamento sobre abonos y fertilizantes de uso agrícola.
LEX-FAOC026164
National Agriculture 14/12/1993
Regulation on the parameters of ecological and chemical status of surface waters and the parameters of the chemical and quantitative status of groundwaters.
LEX-FAOC095228
National 23/09/2011
Ministerial Order No. 258/2010 approving the National Programme for Water Supply and Rural Water Sanitation (PRONASAR).
LEX-FAOC172017
National 30/12/2010
Decreto Nº 181/09 - Ley general de aguas.
LEX-FAOC131278
National 30/09/2009
Regulation on the level of pollutants in the air.
LEX-FAOC167514
National 17/10/2012
Resource Management Act 1991 (No. 69 of 1991).
LEX-FAOC160395
National
Notice of the Ministry of Environmental Protection on the relevant issues concerning the implementation of the provisions on “the amount of pollutant discharge fee payable” in Article 73 and Article 74 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution.
LEX-FAOC148284
National 13/06/2008
Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry relative to control of fertilising products (No. 47 of 1994).
LEX-FAOC083322
National Agriculture 21/01/1994

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