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Study, Analysis and Assessment of International and National Legislation and Practice as to the Co-operation
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1. STUDY, ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND PRACTICE AS TO COOPERATION IN THE SPHERE OF MUTUAL MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATERWAYS.
An urgent need to take into account the interests of water management in river basins, increasing pollution of international rivers and degradation of their ecosystems make it necessary to establish or consolidate the international legal and institutional framework allowing to effectively counteract the environmental danger.
Organizational cooperation has been established in many of the large international basins. The framework for the cooperation is provided either by basin organizations such as commissions or committees or by agreements between two or more countries.
Stage 1 of the project included the study and generalization of international legislation and practice as to cooperation in the sphere of mutual management and protection of transboundary waterways covering the following directions:
1. General tendencies of cooperation in the basins of transboundary waterways.
2. International cooperation experience in the Danube basin.
3. International cooperation experience in the Rhine basin.
4. International cooperation experience in the Black Sea basin.
5. International cooperation experience in the Baltic Sea basin.
The report on this task was presented to IDRC as a part of the Stage 1 report. It is attached to this Final Report as Appendix 2.
Efforts to deal with transboundary environmental problems in other regions may benefit from the UN’s EEC Convention on the protection and use of transboundary waterways and international lakes. The convention covers all aspects of the use and protection of waterways, including information exchange, joint research, legislation coordination, introduction of joint monitoring systems, and coordinated water management and protection efforts.
The experience of drafting the following conventions was also used when drafting the documents within the project:
1. Convention on cooperation in the protection and sustainable use of the Danube (1994).
2. Rhine Convention (1999).
3. Convention on Black Sea protection from pollution (the Bucharest Convention, 1992).
4. Convention on Baltic Sea marine environment protection (1992).
