Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)
2017 / 3. szám - MANAGING WATER QUALITY (ONGOING PROJECTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES) - Heilmann Diana - Fehér János: Strengthening cooperation between river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance the status of the waters of the Tisza River Basin (JOINTISZA)
40 Hidrológiai Közlöny (Hungarian Journal of Hydrology) 2017. 97. évf. 3. sz. INTERLINKAGE WITH THE EUSDR Water quality priority area ‘To restore and maintain the quality of waters” of the European Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) emphasizes the importance of supporting joint efforts in sub-basins. In 2013-2017, the EUSDR ‘water quality’ priority area facilitated the ICPDR Tisza Group activities jointly with the ICPDR Permanent Secretariat and the development of the JOINTISZA project is the result of their successful cooperation. The DTP seeks complements with the broader EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) and reinforces the commitments of the Europe 2020 strategy. The JOINTISZA project will greatly contribute and give direct input to the implementation of the water quality priority area (EUSDR PA4) work plan. The main and specific objectives of the project are fully relevant to its objectives aiming to strengthen cooperation at sub-basin level. The project will strengthen cooperation in the Tisza River Basin and will develop the updated ITRBM Plan, which is an importantn input to the EUSDR action plan. Moreover, the project will also continue to invest in and support the information collection systems already developed by ICPDR as well as promote measures to limit water abstraction. The project also contributes to achieving the goals outlined in the priority area on environmental risks (EUSDR PA5) action plan via the development of an overview of the flood risk management strategy at Tisza River basin level. An interactive communication channel between the project and the high-level coordination bodies (Steering Groups) of both EUSDR PA4 and EUSDR PA5 is provided. SYNERGIES WITH OTHER INTERREG PROJECTS The JOINTISZA project is involved in the Thematic Pole 4 - Water Management and started to plan possible joint actions with the relevant projects. In case of the DriDanube project link between drought-related pilot actions has already been established. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The development of the successful project proposal is the outcome of joint efforts of experts from the Hungarian coordinating body of the EUSDR Priority Area on Water Quality (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade), ICPDR, the Tisza Office of Hungaryand the Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe (GWP CEE). The ICPDR Tisza Group experts, as well as observers from the five countries of the Tisza River Basin also contributed to the successful development of the project proposal. REFERENCES Council conclusions of 13 April 2011 on the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (doc. 8743/1/11 REV 1 -COM(2010)715 final). GWP - Global Water Partnership (2015). Integrated water resources management in Central and Eastern Europe: IWRM vs EU Water Framework Directive. Technical Focus Paper, pp.47. ISSN: 2001-4023, ISBN: 978- 91-87823-20-6. Heilmann Diana (2012). Cooperation in the Tisza River Basin, Bulletin of the International Association for Danube Research (IAD), ISSN 2070-1292, Danube News - October 2012 - No. 26 - Volume 14. Heilmann Diana (2016). Nemzetközi integrált vízgyűjtő gazdálkodási tervezés a Tisza vízgyűjtőn (The process of Integrated River Basin Management Planning in the Tisza River Basin) - in Hungarian., Hungarian Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 96. No2. HU ISSN 0018-1323. ICPDR - International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (2008).Analysis of the Tisza River Basin 2007. Initial step toward the Tisza River Basin Management Plan - 2009, https ://www. icpdr. org/flowpaper/app/ser- vices/view.php?doc=Tisza_RBAnalysis_2007. ICPDR - International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (2009). Danube River Basin District Management Plan. ICPDR, Vienna, Austria. ICPDR - International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (2011). Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan. UNDP/GEF/1CPDR, Vienna, Austria. International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) and United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility (2011).Journey to a Balanced Tisza Basin. An Introduction to the Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan. ICPDR/UNDP/GEF, Vienna, Austria. MoU - Memorandum of Understanding (2004). Towards a River Basin Management Plan for the Tisza river supporting sustainable development of the region, ICPDR, 2004. MoU - Memorandum of Understanding (2011). Towards a River Basin Management Plan for the Tisza river supporting sustainable development of the region, ICPDR. WEBSITES http://www.danubewaterquality.eu- EU Strategy for the Danube Region - “Water Quality Priority area” http://www.icpdr.org - International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) http://dunaregiostrategia.kormany.hu/ http://www.danubewaterquality.eu/
