National, Transboundary, Regional Water Management Plans - Best Practice Examples

Mitja Bricelj, Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning,IDMP Workshop, Bucharest 22 April 2015

Hydrogeographic position of Slovenia

Regional position

Agenda 21, UNCED, June, Rio 1992

First appearance of Slovenia in the UN

Slovenian flag at the UNCED

Agenda 21: bringing the doctrine of sustainable development at a global level? environmental / social / economic dimension of development Agenda 21

Chapter 17:

Integrated Sea and Coastal Zones Management (ICZM)

Chapter 18:

Integrated Water Resources Management(IWRM)

complement Conventions

goals included in the EU acquis

Sustainable development

Integration social/economic/environmental

„New management units“:

Regions/ecoregions

River basins

Coastal zones/Sea

Cooperation

(local/regional/national)

Development recognizes the importance of maintaining / adaptationecosystem services and amenities of the local environment

to improve the quality of life.

Uveljavljanje trajnostnega razvoja v regionalnem morju/Sredozemlju

Portorož, 2005:

adopted the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD)

Signature of Slo-ital-hr cooperation agreement on the pollution caused by accidents at sea

The decision of the preparation of the Protocol on the integrated management of the coast / ICZM

Protocol on integrated Coastal Zone Management/ICZM

EU Adriatic – Ionic StrategyStakeholders Consultation for the 3 Pilllar:Preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the evironment

September 25, 2009, 1. ratification of ICZM Protocol –

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Slovenia

Coast Day 2013 : Koper/Slovenia, Rimini/Italy Brussel - focus on EU SHAPE project: ICZM

Applying Sustainable Development in the Danube Region :

Danube River Protection Convention (DRPC)

Signed

on 29 June 1994in Sofia - Bulgaria

DRPC is a legal frame for cooperation to assure the protection of water and ecological resources and their sustainable use in the Danube River Basin.

Danube River Protection Convention from Schwarzwald to the Black Sea

Water quality improvement

Since 1990 decrease in loads of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and total phosphorus discharged into the Black Sea by 20 - 30%

The average concentrations of priority substances decreased between 2001 and 2007 (JDS)

Slovenia in regional processes

2005 – 2008 chaired the Barcelona Convention

2010 predseduje Mednarodni komisiji za varstvo reke Donave

Coordinated the preparation of the environmental pillar of the EU's Adriatic-Ionian strategy

Adopted the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD)

Accepted Danube River Basin Management Plan / and the starting of EU Danube Strategy

Applying Sustainable Development at the subregional level: The Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin? Kranjska Gora, 2002

International Sava River Basin Commission

Prepared:

Sava River Basin Management Plan/SRBMP

Navigation plan for the Sava River

Guidelines for sustainable boating tourism

Sava Day: 1 June

Cycling tour Sava - from the source to the mouth

The Sava River Youth Parliament

Cycling tour Sava - from the source to the mouth

Porečje Donave in Savski bazen

Porečje Save

Sava Day 2013: Sava Biking Tour

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Beograd, 2013

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Announcement of traditional techniques for cultural heritage - a good practice use of natural resources2013: wooden “kašta” / Kranj wall in the Register of

Cultural Heritage of Slovenia

Future:EU Adriatic-Ionic Strategy

2014- 2020

Goal:

Sustainable development / consideration of ecosystem services; green infrastructure; green and blue growth to improve the quality of life of the common sea.

Linkage between water management in the Sava River Basin and the Adriatic Ionic Basin trough Dinarides. Hydrological delimitation / catchment area is dynamic and depends on the precipitation conditions