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About
this event
On
occasion of Danube Day 2005, the International Commission for the
Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) invites stakeholders from
all riparian countries to participate in the first basin-wide stakeholder
conference, which will be held in Budapest, as Hungary is the currently
presiding country of the Commission.
Foto:
Miklos Keresztes
In
the context of efforts to promote the implementation of the EU Water
Framework Directive (WFD) in the entire Danube basin, the ICPDR,
in its role as co-ordinator, has during the past years put a special
emphasis on the promotion of public participation on a basin-wide
scale according to the approach stipulated in article 14 of the
Directive and detailed in the EU CIS Horizontal Guidance Document
on Public Participation.
The
stakeholder conference is part of an on-going process, following
the 'Danube River Basin Strategy for Public Participation in RBM
Planning' and the 'Operational Plan for Public Participation Activities
on the basin-wide level'. Among the preceding activities carried
out by ICPDR in implementing these strategies, a stakeholder analysis
workshop lead to the identification of relevant stakeholder groups
on a Danube-wide scale as future addressees and partners for information,
consultation and active involvement in the context of WFD implementation.
The
conference aims to bring these stakeholder groups together and serve
as a stepping stone for future participatory initiatives. Specifically,
the following issues are to be addressed
in the context of the conference:
- ICPDR Programme of Action and current
initiatives in the basin,
- ICPDR's current approach to public
participation; with a special view to granting an observer status
to stakeholder groups,
- Exchange on the 2004 Roof Report for
the Danube basin, elicitation of feedback from stakeholders with
respect to the status analysis in view of the programme of measures
to be developed by 2005,
- ICPDR 'Action Programme on Sustainable
Flood Protection'.
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