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CWC
project: Legal basis for transboundary water
cooperation |
THE WORKSHOP
The Workshop on the legal basis for
transboundary cooperation was held in Kiev on 22-24
November 2004. It brought together more than 40
decisions makers, water managers, scientists and
representatives of international organizations and
NGOs from the EECCA region and its bordering countries
(see list
of participants).
The Workshop was organized by the
UNECE secretariat in cooperation with the Ukrainian
Ministry for Environmental Protection and the State
Water Management Committee of Ukraine, the UNDP/GEF
Dnipro Basin Environment Programme, and the Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Swedish
EPA also funded the Workshop.
The workshop focused on legal aspects
of importance in transboundary water cooperation
and management. International conventions, river
basin agreements, statutes for river basin commissions,
the results of international programmes on transboundary
water cooperation and management were discussed.
The workshop participants reported on the application
of the Water Convention principles in their national
framework and in the bilateral and multilateral
agreements entered into by their countries (see
agenda).
Participants examined the needs and
opportunities in the further development of the
legal framework for transboundary water cooperation
in the EECCA region with regard to i) the ratification
of the Water Convention and its Protocols; ii) the
development and review of sub-regional bilateral
and multilateral agreements and their implementation;
iii) specific issues such as floods, transboundary
groundwaters, etc.
The workshop outcome and recommendations
will be presented in a paper to be published in
2005.
BACKGROUND MATERIAL
| Agenda |
English |
Background
paper on the legal basis for transboundary water
cooperation, Sergei Vinogradov, Centre
for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy,
University of Dundee
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Russian
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| UNECE
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary
Watercourses and International Lakes |
English |
| Protocol
on Water and Health |
English |
| Protocol
on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage
Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial
Accidents on Transboundary Waters |
English |
| UN Convention
on the law of the non-navigational uses of international
watercourses |
English |
| Regulation
of the uses of international watercourses, Lucius
Caflisch, World Bank Technical Paper 414 |
English |
| The
UN Convention on the law of the non-navigational
uses of international watercourses: prospects
and pitfalls, Stephen McCaffrey, World
Bank Technical Paper 414 |
English |
| UNECE
Strategies for protecting the environment with
respect to international watercourses: the Helsinki
and Espoo Conventions, Branko Bosnjakovic,
World Bank Technical Paper 414 |
English |
| The
Kiev Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation
for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects
of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters,
Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada and Alexandros
Kolliopoulos, Greek Ministry of Foreign
Affairs |
English |
| Danube River Protection Convention |
English
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| Draft
Agreement between the Government of the Russian
Federation, the Government of the Republic of
Belarus and the Government of the Republic of
Latvia on cooperation in the field of use and
protection of water resources in the Zapadnaya
Dvina/Daugava River Basin |
English |
| 1992
Agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation
on transboundary waters |
Russian
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| 1992
Agreement between Kazakhstan and the Russian
Federation on transboundary waters |
Russian
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PRESENTATIONS
| Opening
statement, Mr. Rainer Enderlein, United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
English/Russian
(630KB) |
| Transboundary
Water Programme of the Swedish Environmental
Protection Agency, Ms. Stina Lundberg,
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency |
English
(100KB)
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| Introduction
to international law of water resources, Mr.
Sergei Vinogradov, University of Dundee |
Russian
(1MB)
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| Development
of cooperation in the Dnipro river basin under
the UNDP/GEF programme, Lubomir Markevych,
UNDP/GEF Dnipro Basin Environment Programme |
English
(1MB) |
| Transboundary
water cooperation in Ukraine, Mr. Mikola Babich, State Committee of Ukraine for Water Management |
Russian
(1,5MB)
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| Transboundary
cooperation and sustainable management of the
Dniestr River, Ms. Annica Carlsson,
Organization for Security and Co-operation in
Europe |
English
(60KB) |
| Dnipro and Dniester cooperation, Ilya Trombitsky, NGO ECO-TIRAS
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Russian
(60KB)
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| The
1997 UN Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational
Uses of International Watercourses, Mr.
Sergei Vinogradov, University of Dundee |
Russian
(200KB) |
| The UNECE Water Convention and its application in EECCA countries, Ms. Francesca Bernardini, United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
English
(380KB) |
| The
latest development in the Water Convention's
regime, including the protocols on Water and
Health and Civil Liability, Mr. Rainer Enderlein,
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
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English/
Russian (1,8MB) |
| Transboundary
Groundwaters: Legal Aspects of Internationally
Shared Aquifer Resources Management, Mr.
Rainer Enderlein, United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe |
English
(700KB)
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| International
cooperation in water management and pollution
control in the Danube River Basin, Mr. Karoly
Futaki, Secretariat of the International Convention for the Protection of the Danube River |
English
(5,5MB)
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| Legal
Framework for Cooperation in the River Basin
Daugava/Zapadnaya Dvina, Ms. Dzidra Hadonina,
Ministry of the Environment of the Republic
of Latvia |
English
(1,2MB)
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| Approaches
to integrated water resources management in
the Aral Sea basin, Mr. Yusup Rysbekov,
Interstate Coordination Water Commission |
Russian
(60KB)
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| Next
stop St Petersburg: Introduction to the next
Workshop on Access to and exchange of information,
and public participation, Ms. Natalia Alexeeva,
NGO Center for Transboundary Cooperation |
Russian
(1,2MB)
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