1. - Transboundary Experiences -
PRB Neisse
- Transboundary Experiences -
Workshop in Genth, Belgium, 4-5th October 2004
Heiko Sieker, IPS, Berlin

2. International catchment
River Basin Neisse
Poland
Germany
Czech Republic
International catchment
Czech Republic (CZ)
Germany (D)
Poland (PL)
Subcatchment of the Odra
Catchment size 4200 km²
Stream length 255 km
56 km CZ
199 km D-PL

3. Projekt-Partner Germany Poland Czech Republic
Staatliches Umweltfachamt Bautzen (Regional Environmental Authority, Coordinator)
umweltbüro essen (Consultant)
Ing.-ges. Prof. Sieker mbH, Hoppegarten b. Berlin (Consultant),
Poland
RZGW Wrocław (Regional Water Development Authority )
Institute for Meteorology and Water Management, Wrocław
Czech Republic
Ministry of the Environment, Praha
The Ministry of Agriculture, Praha
T.G. Masaryk Water Research Institute, Praha

4. Test of Guidance Documents
Objectives
Test of Guidance Documents
Horizontal Guidance ‘Identification of Water Bodies’
IMPRESS
REFCOND
MONITORING
Improvement of trans-national collaboration
Building of confidence
Exchange on innovative methods
Benefits for other catchments (e.g Odra)

5. Water Body Delineation
Step: national work
Step: Comparison of results (for boundary water bodies)
Step: Discussion (Partner meeting in Wroclaw)
Step: Common agreement (for boundary water bodies)
Water Body Delineation Mandau, Comparison (CZ-D)
Water Body Delineation Mandau, Common Map (CZ-D)
Step: Common maps
Pragmatisches Vorgehen
Gemeinsames Gewässernetz

6. Partner meetings Wrocław , October 2004 Görlitz, June 2004
Praha, September 2003
Praha, April 2004
Abstimmungsbedarf herausheben, Vertrauensbildende Maßnahmen
Wrocław , February 2004
Bautzen, November 2003
Görlitz, December 2003

7. Water Body Delineation
Results: ~ 100 water bodies (4.200 km²)
Compared to other catchments
Wupper (52 WB at 800 km²)
Werra ( 41 WB at km²)
Ruhr (177 WB at km²)
Common GIS-data set
Method was taken over by Odra Commission (IKSO)

8. Common map with reference conditions
Other results
Common map with reference conditions
Common Impress-Analysis for subcatchment
Mandau (GER-CZ)
Czerwona (PL)
Common risk assessment
Common monitoring concept

9. Common presentations Belgirate, November 2003 Rom, April 2004
Bruxelles, October 2003
Bruxelles, September 2003
Bruxelles, February 2004

10. All partners agreed to continue the project
Conclusions
After a slow start a successful trans-national collaboration was established
General strategy:
Harmonize the project goal (common report, common maps)
But no harmonization on how to achieve it
Discussion, negotiation for boundary water bodies
Some of the results (methods) are used within the Odra and Wistula catchment
All partners agreed to continue the project

11. Thank you
for your attention!