1 / 12

Status of the Intergovernmental agreement on the Dniester River Basin

Status of the Intergovernmental agreement on the Dniester River Basin. Round table “ Towards Integrated Management of the Transboundary Dniester River Basin: Estonian Experience ” Chisinau – Moldova, OSCE 5 July 2007 by Ilya Trombitsky Executive Director Eco-TIRAS. Current situation.

xanto
Download Presentation

Status of the Intergovernmental agreement on the Dniester River Basin

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Status of the Intergovernmental agreement on the Dniester River Basin Round table “Towards Integrated Management of the Transboundary Dniester River Basin: Estonian Experience ” Chisinau – Moldova, OSCE 5 July 2007 by Ilya Trombitsky Executive Director Eco-TIRAS

  2. Current situation • an intergovernmental treaty from 1994 on boundary waters, which is leading by two Governmental Plenipotentiaries belonging to State Water Agencies River Dniester

  3. Criticism towards agreement 1994 - It regulates water use of several water bodies; - It regulates only parts of water bodies related to State borders; - No basin approach exists; - No complex approach to natural resources exists; - No public involvement to decision making process is provided; - No establishing of River Commission is provided; • - Other than water use stakeholders involvement is limited.

  4. Steps forward • Drafting of new modern Dniester Agreement in frames of Dniester-2 OSCE/UNECE Project. It includes: • River Commission with main stakeholders and a public; • Ecosystems approach; • Integration of users interests; • Monitoring and transboundary management; • Perfect

  5. Structure of a new draft agreement • Art. 1. Scope of agreement • 2. Sphere of Agreement • 3. Used terminology • 4. Principles of Agreement • 5. Directions of Cooperation • 6. Measures for realization • 7. Agreed guidelines and standards • 8. Prevention and control of pollution • 9. Sharing of water resources • 10. Regulation of discharge • 11. Constructions • 12. Conservation and use of biological resources • 13. Protected areas • 14. Protection of the Sea • 15. Extraordinary situations • 16. Monitoring and evaluation • 17. Environmental Impact Assessment • 18. Notification and consultations • 19. Regular data exchange

  6. Structure of a new draft agreement • Art. 20. Scientific cooperation • 21. Public participation • 22. Responsibility for damage • 23. Non-discrimination • 24. Disputes solution • 25. River Commission • 26. Competence of the Commission • 27. Changes and amendments • 28. Annexes • 29. Obligations by other agreements • 30. Action of Agreement

  7. Main directions of cooperation in accordance with draft agreement • Development of sustainable water use, based on long-term protection of water resources; • Substantial lowering of water pollution of the river and the Black Sea; • Prevention of degradation and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity in Dniester River basin; • Use, protection and sustainable management of biological resources; • Prevention and lowering of consequences of floods, droughts and other negative influence of waters.

  8. To realize the agreement Parties adopt national and inter-state programs and plans : a) To control pollution, and establish time-limits for realization; b) To develop sustainable water use, prevention of negative water actions, protection of biodiversity, conservation and rational use of biological resources

  9. Согласованные руководящие принципы и стандарты • coordinate between environment, conservation, land management, development and water sectors • progression from planning at catchment basin level to implementation at site level

  10. Potention for Wise Use of Transboundary River Systems Possible steps : • unilateral work on each side - by NGOs, local stakeholders, governmental authorities > • establish contacts in the catchment basin across the borders, regular consultations, cooperation, joint actions > • joint planning, elaborate common management planning documents > • undertake common, coordinated activities > • administer a shared river and its catchment basin jointly, share personnel and resources.

  11. Projects package • Dniester-3 (informational data bases) • MATRA (four tributaries improvement) • Soroca town Water & Sanitation (GEF/WB) • Ramsar Site Unguri-Holosnita (Ramsar Small Fund) Perspective projects: • Support of River Commission activities • Development of River basin programs & plans • EIA of Novodnestrovsk Hydro-complex • Scientific cooperation on fish resources and water management

  12. Managing International River The Ramsar tools, those of other frameworks should also be used: UN-ECE Transboundary Waters Convention www.unece.org/env/water/welcome.html Common Implementation Strategy of theEU Water Framework Directive http://europa.eu.int/ comm/environment/water/water-framework/index_en.html Lower Dniester

More Related