DEVELOPMENT OF SAVA RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT ... - ICPDR

2. Execution of Tasks
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reporting in BA, HR and CS 1 . It was agreed to address Tasks 2 and 3 in a joint activity and to
start with a national consultation process that used a questionnaire template. This template
(see Appendix 2) has been developed in summer 2006 in close co-operation between the ICPDR
Secretariat and the international Consultants. The template integrated the EC Guidance on
implementing the EU WFD, the GEF Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) approach as well
as the expertise of the Consultants. The finalised template has then been sent out to the
Beneficiary Countries and the Local Consultants of the Consortium in late August 2006. The
government representatives involved in this consultation process are listed in Appendix 2 of this
Report.
In the next step, the international Consultants have used the national responses to prepare a
Discussion Paper for the Sarajevo workshop (Sava basin level), which summarised the draft
results and underlined those points that should be jointly discussed and concluded in Sarajevo.
Upon agreement with the UNDP/GEF DRP Office and the ICPDR Secretariat, this Paper refrained
from comprehensively quoting the national templates, because some of the responses delivered
gave reason to first jointly assess in Sarajevo the template questions and to then allow a review
of national responses. Further, the Sarajevo workshop was always designed to assess possible
regional results and to limit discussions of individual responses from each country.
The result does not want to provide a complete overview of transboundary issues relevant to
the Sava Basin, but it highlights the most important subjects that were identified in this
UNDP/GEF DRP consultation process by government experts and Consultants. In other words:
Key Sava Issues are those having the most important transboundary relevance for improving
basin-wide water management, as stipulated by the WFD. At this stage (i.e. with only a weak
data base available) the raised Sava basin Key Issues have still preliminary character and
few may still have to be reconciled among the Sava Countries. Some results still need to be
brought to a more detailed assessment and common understanding, before the Sava basin
states can endorse them at Sava Commission level.
The annexed Tasks 2 & 3 Report is a synthesis of the information, which has been provided and
jointly assessed by the Sava countries but provides also the individual country statements,
compiled in September 2006 and slightly revised later on. It also contains international views
used for the discussions at the regional workshop held on 13-14 November 2006 in Sarajevo.
The listed Topics of Measures (ToM) are in a similar way an outcome of the national and
regional consultations. More than the KTI, the proposed ToM represent a – not necessarily
complete - long list of possible Measures that the Sava states should be considering in
future water management. The workshop in Sarajevo provided examples of methods for
selecting Measures following EC Guidances and experiences from other European river basins.
Neither the workshop nor this Final Report can provide a list of few Measures that perfectly
address specific Sava issues, as the Sava River Basin Analysis has not yet been produced by
Sava countries and SC. Due to the special Sava database in terms of water management and
socio-economics, only rough recommendations can be given in terms of applying certain Types
of Measures that were found to be suitable for other European river basins and might also be
effective in addressing key Sava issues.
1
While Task 1 and the overall DRP Component ToR were still referring to Serbia and Montenegro (CS), the
DRP Sava activities since the summer of 2006 are limited to the new Republic of Serbia (SRB). Even though
invited in August 2006, the new state of Montenegro did yet not express any interest in this DRP assistance
project. Tasks 2 and 3 are therefore not addressing (the Sava basin area located in) Montenegro.