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
Law No. 12.890 amending Law No. 6.894 including re-mineralisers as a category of input destined to agriculture.
LEX-FAOC097810
National Agriculture 10/12/2013
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
Water Resources Act 1991 (Chapter 57).
LEX-FAOC098149
Regional 25/07/1991
Water Protection Zone (River Dee Catchment) Designation Order 1999 (S.I. No. 915 of 1999).
LEX-FAOC080590
Regional 19/03/1999
Regulation on Organic Production of Plants and Plant Products.
LEX-FAOC104415
National Agriculture 17/10/2001
Ley Nº 144 - Ley de la revolución productiva comunitaria agropecuaria.
LEX-FAOC023019
26/06/2011
Circular No. 02/2008/TT-BCT guiding the conditions and the grant of permits for trading in high-content ammonium nitrate.
LEX-FAOC109841
National Agriculture 19/02/2008
Royal Decree determining the sectoral conditions for discharging wastewater from oil refineries into ordinary surface waters.
LEX-FAOC053794
National waste
Regulation of Fertilizer Act (No. 69 of 1988).
LEX-FAOC066449
National Agriculture 17/12/1988
Guam Waterworks Authority Rates and Services – Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 28 of the Guam Administrative Rules and Regulations.
LEX-FAOC067512
Regional

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