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Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
 
done at Helsinki on 17 March 1992
 
Second International Conference on Sustainable Management of Transboundary Waters in Europe

At the invitation of the Government of Poland, the second international conference on sustainable management of transboundary waters took place in Miedzyzdroje (Poland) from 21 to 24 April 2002. The Conference marked the tenth anniversary of the Water Convention.

The Conference brought together some 160 decision makers, scientists, water managers, and hydraulic engineers from 30 countries and a number of international governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The Conference was organized by the Environment Ministry of Poland, the Environment Ministry of Finland, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany, and the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of the Netherlands under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
 
Achievements and recommendations
Press release
Conference proceedings
Below are available the pdf files of the publication of the proceedings of the Conference.
Preface, list of abbreviations and table of contents (390 KB)
Introductory session (2.1 MB)
Session 1: Integrated approach to transboundary water management (300 KB)
Session 1A: Integration: a concept with many facets (1.4 MB)
Session 1B: Beyond freshwater management: learning from others (3.7 MB)
Session 2: Information and communication: bridging gaps between actors (750 KB)
Session 2A: Adequate information (2.5 MB)
Session 2B: Involvement of right institutions and people (1.2 MB)
Session 3: Challenges to water management and framework for its modernisation (1.1 MB)
Session 3A: Structural and economic developments (2.5 MB)
Session 3B: Legal and institutional arrangements (2.2 MB)
Session 4: European Union legislation and the Water Convention (3.8 MB)
Posters: Part 1 (3.9 MB)
Posters: Part 2 (2.8 MB)
Posters: Part 3 (3.8 MB)
List of participants: Part 3 (330 KB)
Presentations
Below are available most of the presentations given during the conference. For the convenience of the users, these are generally in PowerPoint and in pdf format.
The UNECE Water Convention: the path ahead. Lea Kauppi, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland ppt 160KB pdf 210KB
From potential conflict to cooperation potential: a contribution to World Water Assessment Programme. Janos Bogardi, UNESCO ppt 270KB pdf 280KB
Integrated management of water in river basins. Torkil Jonch-Clausen, Global Water Partnership ppt 10.6MB pdf 5.2MB
Integration of economics into water policy and planning. Stephen Lintner, World Bank ppt 170KB pdf 740KB
The Global Environment Facility: Forging Partnerships and Fostering Knowledge Transfer to Sustain Transboundary Waters in Europe, Central Asia and Around the World. Alfred Duda, GEF Secretariat, USA; Dann Sklarew, GEF International Waters: LEARN, USA ppt 1.3MB pdf 1.1MB
  Integrated approach to transboundary water management
The Protocol on Water and Health - Europe's first legally binding instrument to combat water related diseases. Mark Danzon, Roberto Bertollini, WHO/EURO ppt 1.1MB pdf 515KB
UNEP's Global Programme of Action and the Water Convention. Martin Adriansee, UNEP/GPA ppt 12.8MB pdf 1.4MB
  Integration: a concept with many facets
Integrated Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Development Programme for the Tisza River Basin. Kalman Morvay, Peter Varga, Tisza-Szamos Public Benefit Company, Hungary ppt 3MB pdf 287KB
Dealing with conflicting uses at Lake Constance. Michael Becker, F&N Umweltconsult GmbH, Germany ppt 320KB pdf 550KB
Developing Guidelines for monitoring and assessing transboundary lakes. Pertti Heinonen, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland ppt 1.2MB pdf 210KB
Lake Ohrid Conservation Project: Model for Integrated Management of Transboundary Waters. Dejan Panovski, Lake Ohrid Conservation Project - Ministry of Environment, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Yove Kekenovski, Lake Ohrid Conservation Project, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Lirim Selfo, Lake Ohrid Conservation Project - Ministry of Environment, Albania, David Read Barker, Monitor International, United States ppt 580KB pdf 3.4MB
Comprehensive Transboundary International Water Quality Management Agreement. Conrad G. Keyes, Jr., Environmental and Water Resources Institute, USA with additional edits by Mark W. Killgore, Louis Berger Group, Inc., USA ppt 270KB pdf 220KB
  Beyond freshwater management: learning from others
Beyond Freshwater Management - Integrating environment and development in coastal lagoon and wetlands areas: lessons learned from the Helcom MLW project. Henrik Dissing, WWF, Sweden ppt 970KB pdf 400KB
Connecting rivers and seas - the Danube/Black Sea experiment. Laurence Mee, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom ppt 14.5MB pdf 1.6MB
Recreational water quality and human health in the Caspian region. Kathy Pond, Aidan A. Cronin and Steve Pedley, Robens Centre for Public and Environmental Health, University of Surrey, United Kingdom ppt 7.6MB pdf 2MB
Cooperation in the framework of the Mediterranean Action Plan. George Kamizoulis, WHO/EURO pdf 1.7MB
Integrating wetland conservation and wise use into river basin management. Tobias Salathe, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands ppt 110KB pdf 170KB
  Information and communication: bridging gaps between actors
From monitoring to tailor-made information. Wim Cofino, IWAC, Netherlands ppt 160KB pdf 290KB
The use and valuing of environmental information in the decision-making process: an experimental study. Jos G. Timmerman, RIZA, Netherlands; Geoffrey D. Gooch, Jean Monnet Professor of European Political Integration, Department of Management and Economics, Linkoeping University, Sweden; Kai Kipper, Estonia Baltic Environmental Forum, Estonia; Andrus Meiner, Estonian Environment Information Centre, Estonia; Sandra Mol, RIZA, Netherlands; David Nieuwenhuis, RIZA, Netherlands; Gulnara Roll, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia; Margit Sare, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia; Ulo Sults, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia and Peeter Unt, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia ppt 1.8MB pdf 350KB
  Adequate information
  UNECE Pilot Projects on Transboundary Rivers
Introduction and lessons learned. Martin Adriansee, IWAC, Netherlands ppt 100KB pdf 150KB
Bug surveys: an initiation of transboundary co-operation; Malgorzata Landsberg-Uczciwek, Teresa Zan, Voivodeship Inspectorate of Environmental Protection, Poland ppt 5.3MB pdf 1.5MB
Different approaches in risk assessment for hot spots identification; Juliana Adamkova, Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute ppt 260KB pdf 260KB
Criteria for assessment between countries; Ference Laszlo, Vituki, Hungary ppt 510KB pdf 430KB
How close are we in the EC Water Framework Directive's Implementation? Paul Frintrop, RIZA, Netherlands ppt 110KB pdf 270KB
  On the collection and use of environmental information in transboundary water management
The case of Lake Constance. Susanna Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Sindre Langaas, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, UNEP/GRID-Arendal. ppt 480KB pdf 330KB
  Involvement of right institutions and people
Public access to information and participation in decision-making in local, national and transboundary contexts: experience of MAMA-86's drinking-water campaign. Anna Tsvetkova, NGO MAMA-86, Ukraine ppt 60KB pdf 180KB
Strategies for public participation in the management of transboundary waters in countries in transition. Gulnara Roll, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia; Oliver Avramoski, Lake Ohrid Conservation Project and Alliance for Lake Cooperation in Ohrid and Prespa, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Margit Sare, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia; Piret Uus, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Estonia ppt 2.7MB pdf 2.2MB
Institutional challenges for ensuring active involvement of the public in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Henrik Dissing, WWF Denmark ppt 610KB pdf 260KB
Building Environmental Citizenship to Support Transboundary Pollution Reduction in the Danube: A Pilot Project in Hungary and Slovenia. Magda T?th Nagy, Program Head, REC, presented by Jozef Skultety, ED Office Head, REC, Hungary ppt 180KB pdf 540KB
  Challenges to water management and framework for its modernisation
Management of transboundary aquifers: the contribution of the UNECE Convention to the ISARM Programme, Shammy Puri, UNESCO/IAH, United Kingdom; Geo Arnold, RIZA, Netherlands   pdf 2.8MB
  Structural and economic developments
Small-scale investments in the water sector. Esther Park, Shorebank Advisory Services, United States ppt 110KB pdf 65KB
Which role for economics in the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive? Arnaud Courtecuisse, Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie, France ppt 1MB pdf 830KB
Adapting the law of water management to global climate change and other hydropolitical stresses. Joseph Dellapenna, Villanova University School of Law, United States ppt 100KB pdf 180KB
A transboundary approach to mitigating total dissolved gas in the Columbia River Basin. Mark Killgore, Louis Berger Group Inc., United States ppt 6.8MB pdf 3.1MB
The development and present structure of Lake Peipsi-Pihkva fishery. Margit Eero - substitute for Markus Vetemaa, University of Tartu, Estonia ppt 690KB pdf 470KB
EBRD - Water project identification, financing approach and donor coordination in Central and Eastern Europe. Gerry Muscat, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ppt 800KB pdf 590KB
  Legal and institutional arrangements
Creating networks within and outside the UN family for enhanced co-operation: use, management and protection of internationally shared aquifers in the Mediterranean Region. Mohammed Al-Eryani, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; Bo Libert, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe; Stephen M. Donkor, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa; Branko Bosnjakovic, EST Consultancy - Environmentally Sustainable Transition, Switzerland ppt 510KB pdf 630KB
Joint Water Transboundary Commission: Slovak-Hungarian Water Quality Working Group. Milan Matuska, Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic, Jarmila Makovinska, Water Research Institute in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Gyorgy Simonfai, Ministry of the Environment of Hungary, Ferenc Laszlo, Vituki Ltd., Hungary ppt 90KB pdf 160KB
The discharge rule of Lake Saimaa and River Vuoksi: issues for transboundary cooperation. Markku Ollila, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland ppt 2.1MB pdf 1.3MB
Co-operation in the Meuse river basin: the sharing of the water between the Netherlands and Belgium. Sander Bastings, Ministry of Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Rijkswaterstaat - Directie Limburg, the Netherlands ppt 960KB pdf 560KB
  European Union legislation and the Water Convention
Water-quality criteria according to the EC Water Framework Directive: how they work in the largest transboundary lake in Europe, Lake Peipsi? Tiina Noges et al. Estonian Agricultural University and University of Tartu, Estonia ppt 780KB pdf 700KB
Protected areas and directly dependent water and terrestrial ecosystems as a component of an integrated approach to river basin planning and management - the sub-basin project WUMME in Lower Saxony. Jorg Janning, Ministry of Environment of Lower Saxony, Germany ppt 710KB pdf 480KB
The EU-list of priority substances - a new strategy against water pollution. Bernd Mehlhorn, Federal Environment Agency, Germany ppt 40KB pdf 150KB
Inventory analysis of groundwater in the German part of the Oder River Basin District according to EU - Water Framework Directive. Marco Meinert, HGN Hydrogeologie GmbH, Germany ppt 550KB pdf 850KB
Heavy metals in the upper and middle Odra river system. Recommendations for transboundary river chemical monitoring. Edeltrauda Helios - Rybicka, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland pdf 1.4MB