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1. INTRODUCTION
Effective management of Dnipro basin water quality is impossible without concerted efforts of the riparian countries aimed at implementing a transboundary monitoring programme. This task cannot be accomplished within the framework of the national and departmental monitoring systems now in place in the basin countries. The surface-water quality monitoring network currently available in the Dnipro basin is not adapted to the transboundary monitoring requirements and does not foster the obtaining of a true picture of the state of rivers in transboundary sections. A number of observation posts are too remote from the state borders, certain transboundary watercourses are not monitored at all and the periodicity of observations does not allow for the assessment of transboundary transfer to be performed with a required level of validity.
The Transboundary Monitoring Programme (TMP) for the Dnipro basin was developed in 2002-2003 by the Intergovernmental Monitoring Group set up under the auspices of the International Dnipro Centre “Pollution Monitoring (at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Environmental Problems in Kharkiv).
The TMP was elaborated in accordance with national legislation in the field of environmental monitoring and with due regard for bilateral agreements between the Dnipro basin countries. The Programme takes into account recommendations of the UN ECE Working Group on environmental monitoring and assessment established within the framework of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Helsinki, 1992).
The TMP will come into effect after the signing by the Dnipro basin countries of an Agreement on Cooperation in the Sphere of the Use and Protection of the Dnipro River Basin (hereinafter, the Agreement) and is an integral part (Appendix) of this Agreement.
