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Precautionary Flood Protection in Europe

5-6 February 2003, Bonn

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5 February 2003
10.30	Welcome and Introduction Chair: Fritz Holzwarth, Federal Environment Ministry, Germany
11.00	Jürgen Trittin, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
11.20	Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Vice Minister for Transport, Public Works and Water Management, The Netherlands
11.40	Helmut Blöch, EU Commission, DG Environment Flood Prevention - the European Dimension
11:55	Keynote Speech Wolfgang Kron, Munich Re, Germany Flood Catastrophes: causes - losses - prevention from an international re-insurer's viewpoint
12.15	Questions and discussion
12.30	Lunch
	Session 1: National flood action plans Chair: Claude Gaumand, Lorraine Environment Direction, France
13.30	Colin Green, Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Flood Management in England and Wales
13.50	Lajos Szlávik, Ministry for Environement and Water Management, Hungary István Ijjas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Action Plan on Flood Prevention for Tisza River
14.10	Co-presentations: Joe Pat O'Donnell, Office of Public Works, Ireland Violeta Vinceviciene, Ministry of Environment, Lithuania Armin Petrascheck, Federal Office for Water and Geology, Switzerland
14.25	Questions and discussion
15.45	Coffee break
	Session 2: Interdisciplinary flood protection Chair: Bob Dekker, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, The Netherlands
16.15	Erick Mostert, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Reactivating floodplains, the socio-economic aspects
16.35	Co-presentations: Manuel Menéndez, Cedex - Ministry of Environment, Spain Risto Timonen, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland Nicolas-Gérard Camp'huis, Flood risk management team on the Loire river basin, France
16.50	Questions and discussion
18.00	End of first workshop day
19.00	Dinner in the Restaurant "DaCapo"
6 February 2003
	Session 3: Civil protection, immediate actions and regulation of damages Chair: Alfred Thorwarth, Science Journalist, Germany
9.00	Bernard Barraqué, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), France Risk prevention plans in France
9.20	Co-presentations: Reginald Purnell, Department of the Environment for Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom Rui Rodrigues, Portuguese Institute for Water, Portugal
9.35	Questions and discussion
10.45	Coffee break
	Session 4: International and European co-operation on flood protection Chair: Alfred Thorwarth, Science Journalist, Germany
11.15	Armin Petrascheck, Federal Office for Water and Geology, Switzerland The Action plan on Flood Defence of the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) as an example for European Co-operation
11.35	Co-presentations: Georg Rast, WWF, Germany Ovidiu Gabor, National Administration "Apele Romane", Romania Sándor Tóth, National Water Authority, Hungary
11.45	Questions and discussion
13.00	Lunch
	Session 5: Final discussion and summary of results Chair: Alfred Thorwarth, Science Journalist, Germany
14.00	R. Andreas Kraemer, Ecologic Summary of results
14.20	Discussion
14.30	Bob Dekker & Claude Gaumand, Core Group on Flood Protection of the Water Directors Follow up in the European context
14.50	Questions and discussion
15.45	Fritz Holzwarth, Federal Environment Ministry, Germany Closing words
16.00	End of the Workshop

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German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

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