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We hope that this website inspires anyone wishing to know more about the environmental issues affecting the Danube river basin. And that it is a good source for everyone interested in ensuring the sustainable development of the most international river basin in the world.
MINISTERIAL MEETING 2010
The ICPDR is hosting the second Ministerial Meeting of the Danube River Protection Convention. Ministers and high-level representatives responsible for water resources management in the Danube River Basin will come together on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 in Vienna (Austria)....
DANUBE RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN READY
The River Basin Management Plan has been adopted by the ICPDR on 10 December 2009 and is now available.
FLOOD ACTION PLANS
17 flood action plans for all sub-basins in the Danube catchment area were prepared in 2009. They provide the first comprehensive overview of actions aiming to reduce flood risks that was ever prepared in Danube River Basin.
SLOVENIA TAKES OVER PRESIDENCY 2010
VIENNA, 14 January – Slovenia takes over the Presidency of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) for the year 2010 at a ceremony held at the Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the United Nations (Vienna) today.
DANUBE WATCH 3-4/2009
The new issue of Danube Watch is out. Click here to read the full magazine online!
INTERNATIONAL BLACK SEA ACTION DAY
30 October 2009 - International Black Sea Action Day will be celebrated on October 30-31 in Samsun, Turkey, with activities jointly organized by the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forest and the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution (Black Sea...
UKRAINIAN TEENAGER IS DANUBE ART MASTER 2009
15 year-old Vasyl Vataman from Ukraine has won the International Danube Art Master 2009 Competition. The winning submission was created shows a miniaturist recreation of the Danube ecosystem, presents the strip of the Danube that is familiar to the artist: his village cut...
PLATINA HELD A WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATED PLANNING
As part of its commitment to the promotion of inland waterway transport, PLATINA held its second workshop to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue on waterway management. The workshop was organised by the ICPDR in Ruse (Bulgaria) on September 15-16.
JOINT STATEMENT: NAVIGATION & ECOLOGY
In October 2007, a "Joint Statement on Inland Navigation and Environmental Sustainability in the Danube River Basin" was concluded and very positively received by stakeholders. On 29-30 January 2009, the responsible government authorities and interest groups had...
JDS2 FINAL RESULTS AVAILABLE
Vienna, 11 September 2008 – The Danube and its tributaries are becoming cleaner, the ICPDR announced today, presenting the scientific results of the Joint Danube Survey 2 (JDS2) - possibly the world’s biggest river research expedition ever.
DANUBE BOX
Any child in the Danube Basin is able to name the closest river. But it might have difficulties to say where this river flows to. And it...
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