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
Regulation on how to provide the data on plant nutrition products that are produced and placed on the market.
LEX-FAOC099378
National Agriculture 02/08/2010
Waste Water Emission Ordinance - Dairy Industry.
LEX-FAOC023941
National waste 12/01/1999
Royal Decree determining the sectoral conditions for the discharge of wastewater from the glass industry sector into ordinary surface water and public sewers.
LEX-FAOC141979
National waste
Estrategia Nacional de Diversidad Biológica y su Plan de Acción 2012-2022.
LEX-FAOC092733
National 2012
Water Pollution Control Law Enforcement Regulations (Order No. 2 of June 1971 amended by Order No. 41 of 1971, No. 69 of 1974, No. 2 of 1976, No. 30 of 1979, No. 29 of 1985 and No. 67 of 1986).
LEX-FAOC041074
National 02/06/1971
Law on communal wastewater management.
LEX-FAOC139384
National Waste 29/12/2016
Manure Regulation (Man. Reg. 124/2007).
LEX-FAOC104228
Regional Agriculture
Implementing Regulation of the Act on fertilizers and soil improvers in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.
LEX-FAOC163941
International Agriculture 21/12/2004
Water Code (No. 8 of 2004).
LEX-FAOC147887
National
Acuerdo Nº 603/05 - Acuerdo Marco de competitividad de la cadena agroalimentaria del rubro de cacao.
LEX-FAOC078604
National Agriculture 22/12/2005

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