Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
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Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes |
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UNECE member States are aware of the need for cooperation if they are to ensure that transboundary waters are used reasonably and equitably. They know that they share the same water resources and rely on each other to apply effective solutions. This positive approach to the problem has been triggered, in no small measure, by the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, which 35 UNECE countries and the European Community have already ratified. The convention entrered into force in 1996. The main objectives of the convention are:
-Prevent, control, or reduce transboundary impacts -Conservation and protection of ecosystems -Precaution and intergenerational equity -To prevent, control, and reduce the releases of hazardous, acidifying, and eutrophying substances into the aquatic environment -To promote public information and public participation in relevant decision-making processes. Several bilateral or multilateral agreements between European countries are based on the principles and provisions of this Convention. A first example was the Danube River Protection Convention in 1994, which develops the Convention's provisions in a more specific subregional context. Other examples are the agreements on the rivers Bug, Meuse, Rhine and Scheldt, on Lake Peipsi, as well as on Kazakh-Russian and Russian-Ukrainian transboundary waters. The most recent examples include the 1999 Rhine Convention and the European Union Water Framework Directive. See Also Development and implementation of the Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe Basin Management Program The Danube - Environmental Monitoring of an International River |
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