Ukraine’s Transboundary Water Cooperation in a Blueprint Document

1. Module 4: RBM Planning regarding Blueprint document, training skills, transboundary issues, public consultations, negotiation skills Transboundary cooperation – bilateral commissions Alexei Iarochevitch İstanbul, 2015

2. Ukraine’s bilateral agreements on cooperation in the field of water management on transboundary water courses Water quality group Ukraine – Hungary Flood protection group Ukraine - Hungary Contents

3. Ukraine’s bilateral commissions Agreements on cooperation in the field of water management on transboundary water courses with: • Poland • Slovakia • Hungary • Romania • Moldova • Russia • Belarus

4. Legal background: The Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) was adopted in Helsinki in 1992 and entered into force in 1996 The Danube River Protection Convention was signed on June 29 1994 in Sofia (Bulgaria) and came into force in 1998 Covers: Transboundary surface and ground waters Where it makes state border or cross state border Agreements

5. Governmental authorized executive: State Agency on Water Recourses Country official representatives: Government Commissioner - Chairman (or Deputy) of Agency Deputy government Commissioner – head of relevant River basin management authority Secretary of Government Commissioner Experts Commission representatives

6. Main: Flood protection Hydrometeorological data and water resources Water quality Supplementary: Domestic solid waste management Joint programme implementation (e.g. on flood management) Joint cross-border project implementation (EU, NATO, etc.) Areas of cooperation

7. Annual ordinary meeting (in turn at home and abroad): report on previous year achievements / results planning for the next year Group meetings: scheduled meetings extraordinary meetings (e.g. in case of accidental pollution) joint samplings Meetings

8. Ordinary meeting April 2014, 3 days Joint assessment of water quality status of Tisza river (2 stations, 24 samples per year each laboratory UA, HU + 3 joint samples) Intercallibration exercises ( 10 parameters – non-organic micro pollutants / metals) Report on accidental pollution Report on chemical status assessment on transboundary water bodies of Tisza river Planning for next year Water quality group Ukraine - Hungary

9. Flood protection group Ukraine - Hungary

10. Tisza river basin Ukraine The share of total area - 10 % The share of total area – 8 % Tisza The share of total area - 30 % Romania The share of total area – 46 % Serbia The share of total area – 6 %

11. 1998 Historical flood in Upper Tisza river basin http://www.icpdr.org/main/danube-basin/tisza-basin

12. 2001 Historical flood in Upper Tisza river basin

13. 2008 Extreme flood in Upper Tisza river basin

14. 2008 Extreme flood in Upper Tisza river basin 2010

15. Flood in March 2001

16. UA-HU automatic flood monitoring system “Tisza”

17. Automatic stations network 30 hydrometeorological stations 13 meteorological stations 1 water quality station

18. Before system “Tisza” Hydrometeorogical data collection 1 hour 3 hours 4-5 hours Data collection Data treatment, forecasting Data transferring Using system“Tisza” Decision making 1-2 hours 5 minutes < 1minute

19. Alarm water levels

20. Damage from floods in mln. UAH

21. Thank you for attention!