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With the financial support of The Fleming Fund and the Government of the United Kingdom, FAO Development Law Service (LEGN) has launched AMR-LEX, a subset of FAO-LEX, the world's largest database of food and agricultural policy and legislation.

Developed with a One Health approach, AMR-LEX pays attention to all the legal areas relevant to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) in the food and agriculture sectors. This includes AMR specific policies and legislation, but also sector specific policies and legislation across legal areas.  AMR-lex further incorporates national and regional profiles that include AMR-relevant policies and legislation. Through its national profiles, AMR-lex provides an opportunity to go through different regulatory options and design new regulatory solutions to tackle AMR.  

As part of the official launch of AMR-LEX, the Chief of the Development Law Service underlined the crucial role that regulatory frameworks can play in strengthening AMR multisectoral governance mechanisms, making them accountable, liable, and sustainable in time. It was highlighted how AMR legislation includes a combination of integrated legal solutions, together with sector specific AMR-relevant laws. By disseminating these laws, regulations, and policies, AMR-LEX contributes to the global efforts to address AMR, and to highlight the important contribution that legislation has to this purpose.  

The subset can be accessed by clicking here: https://amr-lex.fao.org/

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