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RESEAU INTERNATIONAL DES
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DECLARATION OF WARSAW
Representatives of INBO members, organisations and administrations in charge of water management in their country and of basin organizations (established or being set up) in Central and Eastern European countries with the support of interested bi- and multi- lateral cooperation agencies gathered in Warsaw on 22 and 23 June 2001, within the framework of the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO).
The delegates declared that they already apply or intend to apply, the following common principles:
- the implementation, on the scale of basins, of an integrated water resource management, which aims at preventing natural and dangerous hazards and disasters and also at rationally and equitably meeting the various uses, to achieve sustainable economic development and to protect and restore the aquatic environment ;
- the creation of financing systems for water management (based on the " user-polluter-pays " principle and the " public interest " concept) for multiyear development, equipment and protection programs ;
- the setting up of partnerships to associate national Authorities, and possibly competent international institutions, with local authorities, water users and concerned non-governmental organizations in the planning and management of basin organizations ;
- the developing of the information capacities of these partners’ representatives to enable them to fully assume the responsibilities and missions assigned to them within the framework of the basin policy.
They agreed - within the limits of their mandate - to adhere to INBO, to pursue INBO objectives and to participate in its joint projects and, in addition, to keep the Network regularly informed of their activities in order to develop a wider cooperation among its members.
Furthermore, through this participation, they agreed to promote the benefits of integrated basin management, thus contributing to the development of this approach in the Central and Eastern Europe especially for implementing the Water Framework Directive of the European Union.
In accordance with the INBO statutes approved during the Zakopane General Assembly (Poland, October 2000), and in particular with article 11 of the statute, the delegates emphasized the need for the creation of a Central and Eastern European Network of Basin Organizations (CEENBO).
They wished that such an initiative be developed in the region in cooperation with the regional GWP CEE.
Especially, the representatives declared, that CEENBO will be:
consistent with INBO general program, approved in 2000 (especially to implement the INBO/GWP Associated Program in the region),
The representatives empowered INBO President, Tomasz Walczykiewicz, as well as the GWP CEE and the GWP-Poland, to prepare CEENBO draft statutes and to organize, with the INBO and GWP support, the first General Assembly of CEENBO before the next INBO General Assembly.
The delegates requested the INBO President and the Permanent Technical Secretariat to ensure the widest possible dissemination of this " Declaration of Warsaw ".
Declared in Warsaw, 23 June 2001
Kalman Papp, National Water Authority, Hungary |
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Vija Silina, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Latvia |
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Petru Serban, Romanian Water Company ‘Apele Romane’, Bucharest, Romania |
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Maria Popescu, Romanian Water Company ‘Apele Romane’, Bucharest, Romania |
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Pavel Puncochar, Ministry of Agriculture of The Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic |
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Ladislav PODKONICKY, Slovak Water Management, Banska Stisvinica, Slovakia |
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Aurelijus Rimas, Water Resources Department, Lithuania |
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Natasa Smolar, Limnos, Ljubliana, Slovenia |
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Kalin Anastasov, Ecosuthwest, Bulgaria |
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Anton BalaZ, Regional Water Management, Poprad, Slovakia |
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Vaclav Jirasek, Povodi Labe, s. p. Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic |
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Mariusz Gajda, Regional Water Management Board, Gdansk, Poland |
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Wojciech Rejman, Regional Water Management Board, Wroclaw, Poland |
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Ryszard Majewicz, Regional Water Management Board, Wroclaw, Poland |
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Aleksandra Ogrodnik, Regional Water Management Board, Gliwice, Poland |
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Jerzy Zieliński, Regional Water Management Board, Warsaw, Poland |
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Elżbieta Seltenreich, Regional Water Management Board, Cracow, Poland |
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Janusz Wisniewski, Regional Water Management Board, Poznan, Poland |
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Andrzej Kreft, Regional Water Management Board, Szczecin, Poland |
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Andrzej Badowski, Bureau of Water Management, Poland |
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Marek Nawalany, GWP – Poland, Poland |
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Tomasz Walczykiewicz, INBO, Poland |
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Janusz Kindler, GWP- Poland, Poland |
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