Meeting of ministers responsible for water protection in the Danube – Black Sea Region

November 26, 2001, Brussels

At this conference two important documents will be signed: the Memorandum of Understanding between the ICPDR and ICPBS and a Joint Declaration on Water and Water related Ecosystems in the Wider Black Sea Region.

At this occasion also the Task Force on Co-operation on water protection in the Danube and Black Sea Region – the DABLAS Task Force – will be created, in order to provide a platform for co-operation for the clean up of the wider Black Sea Region.

 

ICPDR 4th Plenary Session

November 28-29, 2001, Vienna

The regular ICPDR Plenary Session will be held in Vienna, hosted by the Austrian Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Land- und Forstwitschaft und Wasser.

 

The International Conference on Freshwater

December 3-7, 2001, Bonn

The International Conference on Freshwater serves as a preparatory step on freshwater issues for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. The main objective of the Conference is to develop recommendations for the Summit on water and sustainable development issues. Building on the progress achieved in the implementation of Chapter 18 (Agenda 21), the Conference will identify remaining obstacles and define necessary actions. The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is to host the International Conference on Freshwater as announced at the 6th meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. The Conference will take place from 3 - 7 December 2001, in Bonn, Germany. On this occasion, in the frame of the Side Event – "A Decade of GEF Experiences on Transboundary Waters"  Joachim Bendow, the ICPDR Executive Secretary has been invited by the GEF Secretariat to speak about Water Management in the Danube River Basin.

 

Joint Danube Survey Report Preparatory Workshop

Mid December

 

Meetings of the ICPDR Expert Groups

- River Basin Management Drafting Group on Strategic Paper (November 28, 2001, Vienna )

- 7^th River Basin Management Expert Group Meeting  (January 14-15, 2002, Budapest)

- 2^nd GIS Expert Sub-Group Meeting  (January 16, 2002, Budapest)

- River Basin Management Drafting Group on Economic (January 2002, Budapest)

- 28^th Monitoring, Laboratory and Information Management Expert Group meeting (March 21-23, 2002, Prague)

- 15^th EMIS Expert group Meeting (February 28, 2001 - March 1, 2001, Vienna)

 

Workshop on Testing of LAWA Guidelines; Groundwater

4-5 February 2002, Budapest

 

Inception Workshop for the UNDP-GEF Danube Regional Project

7-9 February 2002, Hernstein

 

Workshop on Testing of LAWA Guidelines; Surface Waters

21-22 February 2002, Budapest