RESEAU INTERNATIONAL DES ORGANISMES DE BASSIN
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF BASIN ORGANIZATIONS
RED INTERNACIONAL DE ORGANISMOS DE CUENCA

 

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:

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

Vija Silina, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Latvia

Petru Serban, Romanian Water Company ‘Apele Romane’, Bucharest, Romania

Maria Popescu, Romanian Water Company ‘Apele Romane’, Bucharest, Romania

Pavel Puncochar, Ministry of Agriculture of The Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Ladislav PODKONICKY, Slovak Water Management, Banska Stisvinica, Slovakia

Aurelijus Rimas, Water Resources Department, Lithuania

Natasa Smolar, Limnos, Ljubliana, Slovenia

Kalin Anastasov, Ecosuthwest, Bulgaria

Anton BalaZ, Regional Water Management, Poprad, Slovakia

Vaclav Jirasek, Povodi Labe, s. p. Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Mariusz Gajda, Regional Water Management Board, Gdansk, Poland

Wojciech Rejman, Regional Water Management Board, Wroclaw, Poland

Ryszard Majewicz, Regional Water Management Board, Wroclaw, Poland

Aleksandra Ogrodnik, Regional Water Management Board, Gliwice, Poland

Jerzy Zieliński, Regional Water Management Board, Warsaw, Poland

Elżbieta Seltenreich, Regional Water Management Board, Cracow, Poland

Janusz Wisniewski, Regional Water Management Board, Poznan, Poland

Andrzej Kreft, Regional Water Management Board, Szczecin, Poland

Andrzej Badowski, Bureau of Water Management, Poland

Marek Nawalany, GWP – Poland, Poland

Tomasz Walczykiewicz, INBO, Poland

Janusz Kindler, GWP- Poland, Poland