FAOLEX Database

Policies

Samoa: Samoa's National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2023-2028.
Date of text: 2024
Türkiye: Climate Change Mitigation Strategy and Action Plan 2024-2030.
Date of text: 2024
Kenya: Kenya Vision 2030. (Fourth Medium Term Plan 2023-2027).
Date of text: 2024
India: Framework for Voluntary Carbon Market in Agriculture Sector.
Date of text: 01 January 2024
South Africa: Policy Position on the Conservation of and Sustainable Use of Elephant, Lion, Leopard, and Rhinoceros.
Date of text: 24 April 2024
Japan: Imported Foods Monitoring and Guidance Plan for FY 2024.
Date of text: 2024
China: National Aquatic Animal Disease Surveillance Plan 2024.
Date of text: 11 March 2024
China: 2024 National Veterinary Drug Residue Monitoring Plan for Aquatic Products from Origin.
Date of text: 11 March 2024
China: China's National Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and Action Plan (2023-2030).
Date of text: 01 January 2024
Sri Lanka: National Strategic Plan for Combating Antimicrobial Resistance in Sri Lanka 2023-2028.
Date of text: 2023

Agricultural and rural development

Brazil: Law No. 8.288 creating the State Policy for Agroecology and within the State of Piauí (PEAPI).
Date of text: 09 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Piauí
China: Grain Security Guarantee Law of the People's Republic of China.
Date of text: 29 December 2023
Russian Federation: Regional Resolution No. 339 validating the State Program of the Chechen Republic “Development of agriculture and regulation of markets for agricultural products, raw materials and food.”
Date of text: 26 December 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Chechen
Russian Federation: Regional Resolution No. 348 validating the State Program of the Chechen Republic “Comprehensive development of rural areas”.
Date of text: 26 December 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Chechen
Brazil: Law No. 22.306 creating the State Policy to Promote New Agriculture within the State of Goiás.
Date of text: 05 October 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Goiás
Argentina: Ley 27734 de promoción de la producción orgánica para economías regionales.
Date of text: 28 September 2023
Republic of Moldova: Law No. LP237/2023 “On ecological production and labelling of ecological products”.
Date of text: 31 July 2023
China: Regulations of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Promoting the Construction of National Important Agricultural and Livestock Product Production Bases.
Date of text: 31 July 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Inner Mongolia - Nei Mongol
Ireland: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Act 2023 (No. 19 of 2023).
Date of text: 11 July 2023
Brazil: Law No. 9.949 creating the State Policy on Sustainable Nutritional Food Security.
Date of text: 19 June 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Pará

Climate change

Republic of Korea: Act on Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transportation, Storage and Utilization.
Date of text: 06 February 2024
Finland: Emissions Trading Act (No. 1270 of 2023).
Date of text: 28 December 2023
Brazil: Law No. 11.595 on the guidelines to be observed by the Executive Branch in drawing up the State Policy on Climate Change.
Date of text: 13 November 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Rio Grande do Norte
France: Loi n° 2023-973 du 23 octobre 2023 relative à l'industrie verte.
Date of text: 23 October 2023
Republic of Moldova: Law No. LP43/2023 on fluorinated greenhouse gases.
Date of text: 03 March 2023
Germany: Climate Protection and Climate Adaptation Act (KlimaG BW).
Date of text: 07 February 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Baden-Württemberg
Kenya: The Makueni County Climate Change Act, no. 6 of 2022.
Date of text: 14 December 2022. Territorial Subdivision: Makueni
Australia: Climate Change Act 2022.
Date of text: 13 September 2022
Bahamas: Carbon Credits Trading Act No. 36 of 2022.
Date of text: 11 August 2022
Finland: Climate Change Act (No. 423 of 2022).
Date of text: 10 June 2022

Cultivated plants

Türkiye: Regulation on the licensing and placing on the market of plant protection products.
Date of text: 14 March 2024
Brazil: Law No. 14.785 on research, experimentation, production, packaging, labelling, transport, storage, commercialization, use, import, export, final destination of waste and packaging, registration, classification, control, inspection and supervision of pesticides, environmental control products, technical and similar products.
Date of text: 27 December 2023
Uzbekistan: Law No. ZRU-877 “On plant protection.”
Date of text: 09 November 2023
Ethiopia: Seed Proclamation No.1288/2023.
Date of text: 24 July 2023
Indonesia: Government Regulation no. 29 of 2023 for the Implementation of Law no. 21 of 2019 concerning Animal, Fish and Plant Quarantine.
Date of text: 06 June 2023
Timor-Leste: Decree-Law No. 36/2023 on Plant Health and Quarantine.
Date of text: 31 May 2023
Honduras: Acuerdo C.D. SENASA 002-2023 - Reglamento de la República de Honduras para el Registro, Uso y Control de Productos Fitosanitarios.
Date of text: 15 May 2023
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023.
Date of text: 23 March 2023
Malawi: Fertilizer Act, 2023 (No. 13 of 2023).
Date of text: 18 February 2023
Barbados: Plant Protection Act of 2023.
Date of text: 24 January 2023

Disaster risk management

Ecuador: Ley Orgánica para la Gestión Integral del Riesgo de Desastres.
Date of text: 23 January 2024
Bahamas: Disaster Risk Management Act No. 39 of 2022.
Date of text: 09 December 2022
Uzbekistan: Law No. ZRU-790 “On protection of the population and the territory against emergency situations of natural and technogenic type”.
Date of text: 17 August 2022
Kazakhstan: Law No. 122-VII ZRK “On biological safety”.
Date of original text: 21 May 2022 (19 April 2023)
Uzbekistan: Constitutional Law No. ZRU-737 “On the state of emergency.”
Date of text: 15 December 2021
Argentina: Decreto 482/2021 – Emergencia hídrica.
Date of text: 24 July 2021
Austria: Ordinance of the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism on danger zone plans according to the 1975 Forestry Act.
Date of text: 29 March 2021
European Union: Regulation (EU) 2021/241 establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Date of original text: 12 February 2021 (27 February 2023)

Environment

Brazil: Law No. 14.850 creating the National Policy on Air Quality.
Date of text: 02 May 2024
European Union: Directive (EU) 2024/1203 on the protection of the environment through criminal law and replacing Directives 2008/99/EC and 2009/123/EC.
Date of text: 11 April 2024
China: Regulations on Ecological Protection Compensation (State Council Order No. 779).
Date of text: 06 April 2024
United Arab Emirates: Resolution of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi No. 2 of 2024 regarding the air quality system in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Date of text: 03 April 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Abu Dhabi
Brazil: Law No. 11.669 creating the State Policy on Solid Waste.
Date of text: 10 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Rio Grande do Norte
Germany: Berlin State Immission Control Act (LImSchG Bln).
Date of text: 02 December 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Berlin
Greece: Law no. 5069 of 2023. Conditions of building, construction, permitted land uses for data centres, zoning and urban planning regulations, utilisation of Green Fund resources, other environmental and energy provisions and other urgent provisions.
Date of text: 27 November 2023
Congo: Loi n° 33 - 2023 du 17 novembre 2023 portant gestion durable de l'environnement en République du Congo.
Date of text: 17 November 2023
Colombia: Ley No. 2327 - Por medio de la cual se establece la definición de pasivo ambiental, se fijan lineamientos para su gestión y se dictan otras disposiciones.
Date of text: 13 September 2023
Cuba: Ley Nº 150 - Ley del Sistema de los Recursos Naturales y el Medio Ambiente.
Date of text: 13 September 2023

Fisheries

Slovenia: Decree on the monitoring of catches and the sale of fishery products.
Date of text: 14 March 2024
Mauritius: The Fisheries Act 2023.
Date of text: 17 November 2023
European Union: Regulation (EU) 2023/2124 on certain provisions for fishing in the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) Agreement area (recast).
Date of text: 04 October 2023
Lao People's Democratic Republic: Decree No. 098 /PO of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the the Promulgation of the Law on Wild Animal (Amended).
Date of text: 30 August 2023
Guyana: Fisheries (Products) Regulations 2023.
Date of text: 29 July 2023
Lao People's Democratic Republic: Decree No. 097/PS of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the Promulgation of the Law on Aquatic and Fisheries (Amended).
Date of text: 17 July 2023
Argentina: Disposición 6/2023 - Sustitúyese el Manual de Procedimientos para el Control y la Vigilancia Pesquera Nacional de la Dirección Nacional de Coordinación y Fiscalización Pesquera.
Date of text: 05 June 2023
Croatia: Regulation on the protection of fish and other marine organisms and criteria for determining the amount of compensation for damages.
Date of text: 02 June 2023
Peru: Ley Nº 31749 ─ Ley que reconoce la pesca tradicional ancestral y la pesca tradicional artesanal e implusa su preservación dentro de las cinco millas marítimas peruanas.
Date of text: 27 April 2023
Spain: Ley 5/2023 - De pesca sostenible e investigación pesquera.
Date of text: 17 March 2023

Food and nutrition

Paraguay: Ley Nº 7.264 - Que crea el Fondo Nacional de Alimentación Escolar para la Universalización Equitativa de la Alimentación Escolar (Hambre Cero en Nuestras Escuelas y Sistema Educativo), modifica y amplía la Ley Nº 5210/2014 «De alimentación escolar y control sanitario» y sus posteriores modificaciones y modifica la Ley Nº 6628/2020.
Date of text: 05 April 2024
Mexico: Decreto por el que se expide la Ley General de la Alimentación Adecuada y Sostenible.
Date of text: 06 March 2024
Brazil: Law No. 8.288 creating the State Policy for Agroecology and within the State of Piauí (PEAPI).
Date of text: 09 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Piauí
Brazil: Law No. 8.282 creating the State Policy to Combat Hunger and Food and Nutritional Insecurity in the State of Piauí.
Date of text: 08 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Piauí
Peru: Decreto Supremo Nº 003-2024-MIDAGRI que aprueba el Reglamento de la Ley N° 31315, Ley de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional.
Date of text: 2024
China: Grain Security Guarantee Law of the People's Republic of China.
Date of text: 29 December 2023
Russian Federation: Regional Resolution No. 339 validating the State Program of the Chechen Republic “Development of agriculture and regulation of markets for agricultural products, raw materials and food.”
Date of text: 26 December 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Chechen
Brazil: Law No. 2.930 on the Food Aid Programme (Programa Cozinha Solidária), providing free food, preferably to people in situations of vulnerability and social risk and promoting food and nutritional security policies, social assistance, in the State of Amapá.
Date of text: 21 November 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Amapá
Georgia: Law No. 3548-XIIIms-Xmp “On food loss, food waste reduction and food donation.
Date of text: 04 October 2023
Argentina: Ley 27734 de promoción de la producción orgánica para economías regionales.
Date of text: 28 September 2023

Forestry

Mozambique: Law No. 17/2023 establishing the basic principles and standards on the protection, conservation and use of forestry resources.
Date of text: 29 December 2023
Uruguay: Ley Nº 20.238 - Prevención y combate de incendios forestales.
Date of text: 13 December 2023
European Union: Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010.
Date of text: 31 May 2023
Cabo Verde: Law No. 25/X/2023 establishing the General Policy Framework for Forestry sector.
Date of text: 05 May 2023
Bhutan: Forest and Nature Conservation Act of Bhutan, 2023.
Date of text: 2023
Brazil: Law No. 18.301 establishing the State Agricultural Policy for Planted Forests and their products based on the Sustainable Development.
Date of text: 28 December 2022. Territorial Subdivision: Ceará
Ecuador: Acuerdo Interministerial Nro. MAATE-MAG-2022-003 - Norma Técnica para la emisión del Certificado de Procedencia Legal y Buenas Prácticas Forestales de Productos Maderables y No Maderables.
Date of text: 19 September 2022
Australia: Forestry Regulation 2022.
Date of text: 26 August 2022
Kenya: The Samburu County Sustainable Forest Management and Tree Growing Act, no. 5 of 2022.
Date of text: 10 June 2022
Pakistan: Balochistan Forest Act, 2022 (Act No. VI of 2022).
Date of text: 23 April 2022. Territorial Subdivision: Balochistan

Gender

European Union: Directive (EU) 2024/1500 on standards for equality bodies in the field of equal treatment and equal opportunities between women and men in matters of employment and occupation, and amending Directives 2006/54/EC and 2010/41/EU.
Date of text: 14 May 2024
European Union: Council Directive (EU) 2024/1499 on standards for equality bodies in the field of equal treatment between persons irrespective of their racial or ethnic origin, equal treatment in matters of employment and occupation between persons irrespective of their religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, equal treatment between women and men in matters of social security and in the access to and supply of goods and services, and amending Directives 2000/43/EC and 2004/113/EC.
Date of text: 07 May 2024
Brazil: Law No. 16.102 establishing the State Programme to Support and Encourage Women Entrepreneurs Heads of Household.
Date of text: 18 March 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil: Law No. 7.455 creating the Women's Protection Code.
Date of text: 28 February 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Distrito Federal
Brazil: Law No. 8299 creating the State Documentation Programme for Rural Working Women in Piauí.
Date of text: 08 February 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Piauí
Ecuador: Ley Orgánica para la Igualdad Salarial entre Mujeres y Hombres.
Date of text: 16 January 2024
Brazil: Law No. 6.749 on guidelines for the rights of women workers in the primary sector within the State of Amazonas.
Date of text: 10 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Amazonas
Ecuador: Ley Orgánica para Impulsar la Economía Violeta.
Date of text: 10 January 2023
Sierra Leone: The Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act, no. 23 of 2022.
Date of text: 23 December 2022
Sao Tome and Principe: Equality Law No. 11/2022.
Date of text: 19 September 2022

Indigenous peoples

Brazil: Decree No. 11.509 creating the National Council for Indigenous Policy.
Date of text: 28 April 2023
Brazil: Decree No. 11.510 creating the Interministerial Committee for the Coordination, Planning and Follow-up of Actions for the Protection of Indigenous Lands.
Date of text: 28 April 2023
Ecuador: Acuerdo Nro. SGDPN-2022-001 - Reglamento para otorgar la personería jurídica y el registro a las Comunas ancestrales, comunidades, pueblos, nacionalidades y organizaciones sin fines de lucro.
Date of text: 31 August 2022
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Loi n°22/030 du 15 juillet 2022 portant protection et promotion des droits des peuples autochtones pygmées.
Date of text: 15 July 2022
Panama: Ley 301 – Establece medidas para el desarrollo integral de los pueblos indígenas de Panamá
Date of text: 12 May 2022
Australia: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021.
Date of original text: 22 December 2021 (12 September 2022). Territorial Subdivision: Western Australia
Australia: Traditional Knowledge Code of Practice Biodiscovery Act 2004.
Date of text: 27 August 2021. Territorial Subdivision: Queensland
Bolivia (Plurinational State of): Ley Departamental Nº 426 - Ley declaratoria a la pesca tradicional de los pueblos y naciones indígenas Guarani, Weenhayek y Tapiete en el río Pilcomayo, como patrimonio histórico y cultural del Departamento de Tarija.
Date of text: 18 March 2021. Territorial Subdivision: Tarija

Land and soil

Cabo Verde: Decree-Law No. 12/2024 approving the Legal Regime of Land Registry.
Date of text: 21 March 2024
Viet Nam: Land Law No. 31/2024/QH15.
Date of text: 18 January 2024
Mauritania: Loi n° 2024-003 du 17 janvier 2024 relative à l’urbanisme et à la construction.
Date of text: 17 January 2024
Senegal: Loi n°2023-20 du 29 décembre 2023 portant Code d'urbanisme du Sénégal.
Date of text: 29 December 2023
Greece: Law no. 5069 of 2023. Conditions of building, construction, permitted land uses for data centres, zoning and urban planning regulations, utilisation of Green Fund resources, other environmental and energy provisions and other urgent provisions.
Date of text: 27 November 2023
Indonesia: Presidential Regulation no. 62 of 2023 concerning the Acceleration of Implementation of Agrarian Reform.
Date of text: 03 October 2023
Bangladesh: Land Reforms Act, 2023 (Act No. 37 of 2023).
Date of text: 18 September 2023
Cabo Verde: Law No. 34/X/2023 regulating the Regional and Local Development Planning System, defining the system for coordinating the national, regional, intermunicipal and municipal levels of regional and local development planning, as well as the process of elaboration, review, approval, execution, follow-up and evaluation of regional, intermunicipal and municipal development planning instruments.
Date of text: 22 August 2023
Brazil: Decree No. 11.510 creating the Interministerial Committee for the Coordination, Planning and Follow-up of Actions for the Protection of Indigenous Lands.
Date of text: 28 April 2023
Morocco: Loi n° 39-08 relative au code des droits réels.
Date of text: 2023

Livestock

Senegal: Loi 2023-19 du 27 décembre portant Code pastoral
Date of text: 27 December 2023
Brazil: Law No. 6.670 establishing the Code of Animal Rights and Welfare of Amazonas.
Date of text: 22 December 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Amazonas
Austria: Veterinary Medicinal Products Act (TAMG).
Date of original text: 01 December 2023 (2024)
China: Regulations of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Promoting High Quality Development of Dairy Sector.
Date of text: 30 November 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Inner Mongolia - Nei Mongol
China: Regulations of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Promoting High Quality Development of Meat Sector.
Date of text: 30 November 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Nei Mongol
Brazil: Law No. 7.328 creating the State Animal Health Protection within the Federal District.
Date of text: 26 October 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Distrito Federal
China: Regulations of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Promoting the Construction of National Important Agricultural and Livestock Product Production Bases.
Date of text: 31 July 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Inner Mongolia - Nei Mongol
Argentina: Decreto 386/2023 - Apruébase la Reglamentación de la Ley N° 27.680, Ley de Prevención y Control de la Resistencia a los Antimicrobianos.
Date of text: 24 July 2023
Ireland: Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023 (No. 21 of 2023).
Date of text: 11 July 2023
Indonesia: Government Regulation no. 29 of 2023 for the Implementation of Law no. 21 of 2019 concerning Animal, Fish and Plant Quarantine.
Date of text: 06 June 2023

Social protection

Brazil: Law No. 8.282 creating the State Policy to Combat Hunger and Food and Nutritional Insecurity in the State of Piauí.
Date of text: 08 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Piauí
Brazil: Law No. 2.930 on the Food Aid Programme (Programa Cozinha Solidária), providing free food, preferably to people in situations of vulnerability and social risk and promoting food and nutritional security policies, social assistance, in the State of Amapá.
Date of text: 21 November 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Amapá
Brazil: Complementary Law No. 741 establishing the State Policy on Social Assistance of Rio Grande do Norte (PEAS/RN) and the organization of the State Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS).
Date of text: 27 September 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Rio Grande do Norte
Brazil: Law No. 8.886 establishing the Food Bank Programme within the State of Alagoas.
Date of text: 17 July 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Alagoas
Kazakhstan: Social Code (Law No. 224-VII ZRK).
Date of original text: 20 April 2023 (04 July 2023)
Cabo Verde: Decree-Law No. 3/2023 creating the Social Fund called “Fundo MAIS”.
Date of text: 12 January 2023
Pakistan: Sindh Social Protection Authority Act, 2022 (Sindh Act No. IX of 2022).
Date of text: 12 August 2022. Territorial Subdivision: Sindh
Benin: Décret n° 2022-390 du 13 Juillet 2022 portant organisation des procédures de l’évaluation environnementale et sociale en République du Bénin.
Date of text: 13 July 2022
Colombia: Ley Nº 2136 - Ley por medio de la cual se establecen las definiciones, principios y lineamientos para la reglamentación y orientación de la Política Integral Migratoria del Estado Colombiano (PIM).
Date of text: 04 August 2021
Germany: Supply Chain Due Diligence Act.
Date of text: 16 July 2021

Water

China: Water Conservation Regulations.
Date of text: 09 March 2024
Australia: Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Act 2023 (No. 111 of 2023).
Date of text: 07 December 2023
Viet Nam: Law No.28/2023/QH15 on Water Resources.
Date of text: 27 November 2023
Portugal: Decree-Law No. 69/2023 establishing the legal framework for the quality of water intended for human consumption.
Date of text: 21 August 2023
Georgia: Law of Georgia on Water Resources Management (No. 3423-XIMS-XMP of 2023)
Date of text: 30 June 2023
Brazil: Law No. 2.579/2023 on the recognition of the rights of the Rio Laje - Komi Memen in the municipality of Guajará-Mirim and its classification as a specially protected entity.
Date of text: 28 June 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Rondônia
Pakistan: Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation Act, 2023 (Sindh Act No. XVIII of 2023).
Date of text: 26 June 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Sindh
India: Mizoram Ground Water (Control and Regulation) Ordinance, 2023.
Date of text: 13 June 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Mizoram
Namibia: Water Resources Management Regulations (GN No. 269 of 2023).
Date of text: 12 June 2023
Barbados: Water Reuse Act of 2023 (Act No, 10 of 2023).
Date of text: 01 June 2023

Wild species and ecosystems

China: Regulations on Ecological Protection Compensation (State Council Order No. 779).
Date of text: 06 April 2024
Ghana: Wildlife Resources Management Act, 2023 (Act 1115).
Date of text: 01 March 2024
Tunisia: Loi n° 2024-17 du 22 février 2024, portant organisation du commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d’extinction.
Date of text: 22 February 2024
Mozambique: Law No. 17/2023 establishing the basic principles and standards on the protection, conservation and use of forestry resources.
Date of text: 29 December 2023
Brazil: Law No. 6.670 establishing the Code of Animal Rights and Welfare of Amazonas.
Date of text: 22 December 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Amazonas
Cuba: Ley Nº 150 - Ley del Sistema de los Recursos Naturales y el Medio Ambiente.
Date of text: 13 September 2023
Lao People's Democratic Republic: Decree No. 098 /PO of the President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the the Promulgation of the Law on Wild Animal (Amended).
Date of text: 30 August 2023
Chile: Ley Núm. 21.600 – Crea el Servicio de Biodiversidad y Áreas protegidas y el Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas.
Date of original text: 21 August 2023 (23 December 2023)
Brazil: Law No. 22.218 establishing the State Policy to Promote Local Tourism.
Date of text: 16 August 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Goiás
China: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Regulations on the Promotion of Construction of Important Ecological Security Barriers in Northern of China.
Date of text: 31 July 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Inner Mongolia - Nei Mongol