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Urgent Nitrogen Approach Act

legislation type Legislative
Law
Act
Passed in 2019
This emergency law contains rules to tackle nitrogen pollution in the country. This law was used by the government in order to reduce the authorised daily speed limit on all roads to 100 km/h, in order to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, but also to reduce the Netherlands' transport-sector CO2 emissions.

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