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.


Filter by:

Policy Title ECOLEX/FAOLEX Ref ID Scale Sector Date of Text
Decree No. 474/2000 of the Ministry of Environment on the determination of the quantity of emitted pollutants, method and conditions of determination, monitoring and presentation of data on compliance with defined emission limits and general operational conditions and on technical equipment requirements for monitoring of emissions and polluting substances.
LEX-FAOC005251
National 15/12/2000
Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC.
LEX-FAOC161167
National energy 23/04/2009
Notification No. 2011/33 on methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of the levels of nitrates in certain foodstuffs.
LEX-FAOC023763
National Agriculture 15/08/2011
Order No. 56 of the Federal Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision Service validating the form of authorization for emission of pollutants to the atmospheric air.
LEX-FAOC045355
National 07/02/2007
Arrêté conjoint du ministre de l'intérieur, du ministre de l’énergie, des mines, de l’eau et de l’environnement, du ministre de l’industrie, du commerce et des nouvelles technologies et du ministre de l’artisanat N° 2942-13 du 1er hija 1434 (7 octobre 2013) fixant les valeurs limites générales de rejet dans les eaux superficielles ou souterraines.
LEX-FAOC167268
National 07/10/2013
Arrêté du ministre de l'environnement et du développement durable du 6 mai 2015, fixant la liste des domaines d'activités polluantes de l'air pour lesquels les exploitants d'installations y opérant sont tenus de contrôler les polluants de l'air à la source et de connecter leurs installations au réseau national de surveillance de la qualité de l'air.
LEX-FAOC013923
National 06/05/2015
Agricultural Law No.53 of 1966.
LEX-FAOC053550
National Agriculture
Climate Change Mitigation and Low-Carbon Economy Act, 2016 (S.O. 2016, c. 7).
LEX-FAOC144419
Regional 08/07/1905
State Standard No. AZS 809-2-2015 for Water quality -- Biological classification of rivers -- Part 2: Guidance on the presentation of biological quality data from surveys of benthic macro-invertebrates.
LEX-FAOC018861
National 10/07/2015
Resolution No. 90/1 of 2000 defining the conditions for importation of fertilisers.
LEX-FAOC172116
National Agriculture 05/04/2000

Pages