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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

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Current situation

• an intergovernmental treaty from 1994 on boundary
  waters, which is leading by two Governmental
  Plenipotentiaries belonging to State Water
  Agencies

River Dniester
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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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
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• coordinate between environment, conservation,
  land management, development and water sectors
• progression from planning at catchment basin
  level to implementation at site level

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Potention for Wise Use of Transboundary River
Systems

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

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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

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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 C
ommon Implementation
Strategy of the EU Water

Framework Directive http//europa.eu.int/
comm/environment/water/water-framework/index_en.ht
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Lower Dniester