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1 EUROPE-INBO 2015 Roundtable TR2 WATER GOVERNANCE IN TRANSBOUNDARY BASINS Reporting on the presentations and working groups discussions EUROPE-INBO th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 1 23/10/2015

2 Roundtable Programme 2 23/10/2015

3 Co-chairs: Mr. Jerzy ZWOZDZIAK (Poland) Mr. Dejan KOMATINA (ISRBC) Co- reporters Mr. Arnould LEFEBURE (ICS) Mr. Kazakis NERANTZIS (Greece) 3 23/10/2015

4 Panellists: Dr Dejan KOMATINA, Secretary general International Sava Commission Mr Ernst UBERREITER, water directorate, Austria Mr Jacques GANOULIS, Water and marine director, Greece Ms Ada PANDELE, ANAR, Romania Ms Ljupka DIMOSKA-ZAJKOV Mr Mariusz ADYNKIEWICZ-PIRAGAS, Meteorology and water management Institute, Poland Ms daphne MANTZIOU water policy officer, society for the protection of Prespa, Greece Pr Viktor DUKHOVNY, Director Scientific information center of the interstate commission for water coordination in central Asia Ms Olena BOYEVA Head of international cooperation department state agency of water, Ukraine 4 23/10/2015

5 Main outcomes and recommendations Issue of coordination: A few questions : A. TRUST: How to get together riverine or upstreamdownstream parties? B. JOINT PROGRAMMES: How to implement IWRM, reducing pollution, reducing floods risks, public participation,? C. MONEY: How funding international cooperation? 5 23/10/2015

6 Main outcomes and recommendations 1. Role of Eu /UNECE initiatives (Eu water initiatives for the EEECA region) Practical assistance to strengthen IWRM /UNECE, WFD, Policy packages (strategies, legal tools, governmental directives, ) 2. Develop permanent International platforms as international river commissions, river basin organizations: For peaceful process: they develop trust among parties (ISC) For transversal politics linked to water: agriculture, tourism, transport,.. For prospective and innovation (Austria, new fields as microplastics) For public participation (Sava water council, NGOs, ) 3. Develop Joint Operational Programmes between countries For reducing risks of flooding (automatic monitoring network in Romania - Ukraine Moldova, Common floods protection plan in Romania) For adaptation to climate change (modelling future water resources NEYMO project for river Neysse - Germany /Poland) For biodiversity protection (Prespanet) 6 23/10/2015

7 Main outcomes and recommendations ISSUES OF COORDINATION 1. Transversality : settle water governance bodies at different levels of the water hierarchy linked to others sectors, others stakeholders 2. Build coherence between EU directives, UNECE convention, 3. Transboundary cooperation for climate change adaptation 4. Necessary commitment of governments to support transboundary coordination 5. Importance of Local, regional initiatives for local implementation: the key roles of NGOs and self governance. 7 23/10/2015

8 Main outcomes and recommendations 5 RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Develop financial and economic tools of IWRM ( financial and economic plan, economic assessment, labor input, balance sheets, ) 2. International exchange as motor innovation 3. Raising external funds through agreed projects Transboundary water management through improved data, 4. Information & knowledge transfer management 5. Invest in international cooperation pays back! 8 23/10/2015

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