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
Agricultural Quarantine Law.
LEX-FAOC088883
National Agriculture 08/10/2000
Prevention of Pollution of the Sea (Air) Regulations, 2005.
LEX-FAOC088312
National Transport
Order No. 626 of the Federal Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision Service validating the Methodical Instruction on administering environmental fees for emissions into the atmosphere.
LEX-FAOC086902
National 12/09/2007
Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (2009 Asp 12).
LEX-FAOC121017
Regional 04/08/2009
Décret executif nº 06-138 réglementant l'émission dans l'atmosphère de gaz, fumées, vapeurs particules liquides ou solides, ainsi que les conditions dans lesquelles s'exerce leur contrôle.
LEX-FAOC077858
National Industry 15/04/2006
Presidential Decree No. 261/11 approving the Regulation on the quality of water.
LEX-FAOC005416
National 06/10/2011
Junk Bay Water Control Zone Statement of Water Quality Objectives, Chapter 358l (Section 5).
LEX-FAOC148255
Local
Order No. 50/2005 instituting several programmes for improving water quality standards.
LEX-FAOC146615
National 20/01/2005
Order of 29 December 2006 fixing the scale of the assigned tax levied by the French Food Safety Agency relating to the placing on the market of plant protection products and their adjuvants and to the approval of fertilizers and growing media .
LEX-FAOC028639
National Agriculture 29/12/2006
Rule book on environmental emission inventory.
LEX-FAOC103329
National 18/04/1996

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