Tisza Group

At the ICPDR Ministerial Meeting in 2004, the representatives of the five Tisza countries signed the Memorandum of Understanding to develop a River Basin Management Plan for the Tisza River. This plan should support sustainable development of the region. Fundamental steps have been taken since then by the ICPDR Tisza Group.

The Tisza River Basin is a highly picturesque territory of Europe: Mountain streams, meandering rivers, diverse floodplains are characteristic of this region – home to the unique mayfly species called the Tisza Flower (Palingenia longicauda), which is only found in the rivers of the plains of the Carpathian Basin.

Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia share the beauties of the Tisza River Basin and are also aware of the area’s problems related to water supply, flooding, droughts, landslides and erosion, pollution by industrial and mining activities as well as from agriculture. These problems are influencing water quality and quantity, and the management of land and water.

in countries sharing the largest sub-basin of the Danube Basin have a long history of cooperation resulting among others in signing the Agreement on the protection of the Tisza and its tributaries in 1986 or in establishing the Tisza Forum to address flood issues in 2000. The Tisza cooperation has been given a new perspective in line with the development of the Danube cooperation and the EU water policy.

At the first ICPDR Ministerial Meeting in 2004, ministers and high-level representatives of the five Tisza countries signed the Memorandum of Understanding Towards a River Basin Management Plan for the Tisza River supporting sustainable development of the region.

The Tisza Group, which has been established by the ICPDR,  is the platform for strengthening coordination and information exchange related to international, regional and national activities and to ensure harmonisation and effectiveness of related efforts. The Tisza countries agreed to prepare a sub-basin plan - the so called Tisza River Basin Management Plan - by 2009. This plan should ntegrate issues on water quality and water quantity, land and water management, flood and drought.

The first step towards this objective is the preparation of the Tisza analysis report (Anaylsis of the Tisza River Basin – 2007), which is the first milestone in implementing the Memorandum of Understanding. It characterises the Tisza river and its basin, identifies the key environmental and water management problems. Following the identification of the key water management issues, the next milestone is to prepare an integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan by 2009.

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