FAOLEX Database

Policies

Japan: Imported Foods Monitoring and Guidance Plan for FY 2024.
Date of text: 2024
China: China's National Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and Action Plan (2023-2030).
Date of text: 01 January 2024
Zanzibar (United Republic of Tanzania): Zanzibar Fisheries Master Plan 2023-2038.
Date of text: 2023
Zanzibar (United Republic of Tanzania): Zanzibar National Plan of Action (ZNPoA) towards implementation of FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries.
Date of text: 01 April 2023
Jordan: National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy - Second edition 2023 - 2030.
Date of text: 2023
India: Foreign Trade Policy, 2023.
Date of text: 31 March 2023
Tajikistan: Government Resolution No. 503 validating the State program for the development of the logistics system in the Republic of Tajikistan for 2023 - 2028.
Date of text: 28 October 2023
Cyprus: Cyprus National Reform Programme 2023.
Date of text: 01 April 2023
Solomon Islands: Solomon Islands Long-term Low Emission Development Strategy.
Date of text: 01 September 2023
Ireland: Ireland’s 4th National Biodiversity Action Plan 2023–2030.
Date of text: 2023

Agricultural and rural development

Brazil: Law No. 8288 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
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
Argentina: Decreto 292/2023 - Reglamentación de la Ley N° 27.118 de agricultura familiar.
Date of text: 05 June 2023
Poland: Act on the Agriculture Protection Fund.
Date of text: 09 May 2023

Climate change

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
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
Date of text: 06 June 2022. Territorial Subdivision: Northern Ireland
Chile: Ley Nº 21.455 - Ley Marco de Cambio Climático.
Date of text: 30 May 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
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
Armenia: Law No. HO-345-N “On seeds and seedlings.”
Date of text: 03 October 2022

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

China: Regulations on Ecological Protection Compensation (State Council Order No. 779).
Date of text: 06 April 2024
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
Brazil: Law No. 22.218 establishing the State Policy to Promote Local Tourism.
Date of text: 16 August 2023. Territorial Subdivision: Goiás
Kyrgyzstan: Law No. 181 “On non-domestic and domestic waste”.
Date of text: 15 August 2023
Guyana: Radiation Safety and Security Act No. 10 of 2023.
Date of text: 02 August 2023

Fisheries

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
Spain: Ley 5/2023 - De pesca sostenible e investigación pesquera.
Date of text: 17 March 2023
Egypt: Prime Minister’s Decision No. 706 of 2023 issuing the executive regulations for the Law for the Protection and Development of Lakes and Fish Resources promulgated by Law No. 146 of 2021
Date of text: 21 February 2023
Uganda: Fisheries and Aquaculture Act 2022.
Date of text: 08 February 2023

Food and nutrition

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. 8288 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. 8282 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
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
Republic of Moldova: Law No. LP237/2023 “On ecological production and labelling of ecological products”.
Date of text: 31 July 2023
Uruguay: Ley N° 20177 - Normas sobre donación de alimentos.
Date of text: 21 July 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

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
Brazil: Law No. 6.767 establishing guidelines to encourage female entrepreneurship.
Date of text: 10 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Amazonas
Brazil: Law No. 6.732 establishing the Female Entrepreneurship Seal, to be granted to companies, government and social entities that work in the development of actions involving the training, qualification, preparation and insertion of women in the labour market and female entrepreneurship.
Date of text: 05 January 2024. Territorial Subdivision: Amazonas
Brazil: Law No. 17.504 creating the State Council for Women's Rights of Paraná under the organizational structure of the State Secretariat responsible for women's public policy, and establishing the State Fund for Women's Rights.
Date of original text: 15 December 2023 (11 January 2013). Territorial Subdivision: Paraná
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
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
Timor-Leste: Decree-Law No. 41/2023 establishing the General Regulation on Quarantine.
Date of text: 31 May 2023
Kyrgyzstan: Law No. 66 “On organic production”.
Date of text: 23 March 2023

Social protection

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
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
European Union: Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013.
Date of text: 24 June 2021
Morocco: Dahir n° 1-21-30 du 9 chaabane 1442 (23 mars 2021) portant promulgation de la loi-cadre n° 09-21 relative à la protection sociale.
Date of text: 23 March 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
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
Namibia: Water Resources Management Regulations (GN No. 269 of 2023).
Date of text: 12 June 2023
Barbados: Water Reuse Act of 2023.
Date of text: 17 May 2023
Greece: Law no. 5037 of 2023. Renaming the Energy Regulatory Authority to the Waste, Energy and Water Regulatory Authority and expanding its scope with responsibilities over water services and urban waste management, strengthening water policy - Modernisation of the legislation on the use and production of electricity from renewable sources through the incorporation of EU Directives 2018/2001 and 2019/944 - More specific provisions for renewable energy sources and environmental protection.
Date of text: 28 March 2023
Croatia: Law on water for human consumption.
Date of text: 03 March 2023

Wild species and ecosystems

China: Regulations on Ecological Protection Compensation (State Council Order No. 779).
Date of text: 06 April 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
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
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
Timor-Leste: Decree-Law No. 28/2023 establishing the Bases of Tourist Activities.
Date of text: 31 May 2023
Panama: Ley Nº 8 – Que establece la conservación y protección de las tortugas marinas y sus hábitats en la República de Panamá.
Date of text: 01 May 2023