Restoring and Maintaining the Quality of Waters

RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS

Supporting activities focusing on accession and non-EU countries towards achieving the Danube basin-wide goals

1 The EU Strategy for the Danube Region OVERVIEW

The Danube Region represents one fifth of the European Union’s total area and is home to more than 100 million inhabitants. The region is comprised of 9 EU (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) and 3 accession/candidate countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia) and 2 non-EU countries (Moldova and Ukraine).The states show significant regional disparities in economic and social development. In order to increase growth and strengthen cooperation at a macro-regional level, the European Union established the Danube Region Strategy with eleven priority areas, among them one focusing on water quality issues.

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DISCLAIMER Praha UKRAJINA ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA REPUBLICA DEUTSCHLAND SLOVENSKO MOLDOVA

Wien Bratislava Kishinev

Budapest ÖSTERREICH MAGYARORSZÁG ROMÂNIA

SLOVENIJA Zagreb http://www.danube-region.eu/ Ljubljana Bucuresti HRVATSKA as of 1 July 2013

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Source: Source: BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA SRBIJA The Sarajevo countries BULGARIA CRNA Sofiya of the GORA Podgorica DISCLAIMER Danube Region THIS DOCUMENT REFLECTS ONLY THE AUTHOR’S VIEW Strategy AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE (EUSDR) THAT MAY BE MADE OF THE INFORMATION IT CONTAINS.

www.danube-region.eu INTERACT is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Overview

60,000 The EUSDR addresses major challenges from transport to energy 50,000 and environment, among others. The main objectives of the complex Gross National 40,000 strategy include socio-economic development, the improvement of Income 30,000 (GNI) per competitiveness, environmental management and resource efficiency, capita 20,000 based on enhancement of security and the modernisation of transport corridors. purchasing 10,000 The 4 pillars of the Strategy are as follows: power parity 0  connecting the Danube Region, (PPP) in the Serbia  protecting the environment in the Danube Region, Austria Croatia Ukraine Danube Bulgaria GermanyHungary Romania SlovakiaSlovenia Region Montenegro  building prosperity in the Danube Region and Czech Republic (inter-  strengthening the Danube Region. national Republic of Moldova dollars, Bosnia and Herzegovina Danube Region avarage 2016)

World Bank data, Diagram compiled by PA4 The Priority Area

The EU pays special attention to the cooperation at water basin level The Danube is Europe’s second longest river, after the Volga River, and and for that it adopted macro-regional strategies. Since 2009 four the longest in the European Union. The Danube is the most international macro-regional strategies have been adopted, the EU Strategy for the river basin in the world, stretching over 2,800 km across Europe. The Baltic Sea Region, the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), the river rises from a spring near the town of Donaueschingen, in the Black EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian region and one year afterwards Forest in Germany and then flows southeast, passing through four the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region. One of these stategies, namely capital cities before settling into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) was adopted and endorsed under the Hungarian EU Presidency in June 2011.1 The EU Mayflies emphasises the importance of early exchange of experience between in the macro-regional strategies on the best practices of the implementation Tisza River, Hungary of the water-related priority areas. The water quality priority area of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR PA4) finds it inevitable to establish a closer link with the other macro-regional strategies, especially their water-related activities. From 2017 on the EUSDR PA4 initiates discussion with other macro regional strategies to exchange experiences and facilitate net working towards identifying common problems and solutions.

1 Council conclusions of 13 April 2011 on the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (doc. 8743/1/11 REV 1 –COM(2010)715 final)

4 5 RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Key Challenges and Approach

Romania and Ukraine. The Danube Basin covers an area of over 800,000 water management towards reaching the good quality of waters km,2 stretches over 19 countries, 14 of which are contracting parties to the in the Danube River Basin. The main decision making body is the Danube River Protection Convention (DRPC) signed in Sofia in 1994. The Steering Group, comprised of representatives from all Danube Region drainage area of the Danube is also influenced by two major mountain countries. chains: the Alps and the Carpathians. Water management is therefore a central issue to the Danube Region, as water does not recognise borders To address the above mentioned issues the water quality priority area and its management requires strong coordination and cooperation. (PA4) has chosen the following tools for its approach:  cooperation with relevant institutions; Restoring and maintaining the quality of waters is focusing on  alignment of funding; the reduction of four main pressures coming from organic and  facilitate project implementation and to create a platform for nutrient pollution, derived from hazardous substances and from networking towards setting up project consortiums. hydromorhological alterations. These pressures have resulted in strong eutrophication of the waters, sometimes causing risks or threats to human health, but also altering the aquatic ecosystem functions endangering the species of these systems. KEY CHALLENGES AND APPROACH

Governance CHARACTERISTICS OF WATER QUALITY IN THE DANUBE REGION

Hungary, together with Slovakia has been assigned to coordinate The basin itself has unique natural resources and nearly 1500 the water quality issues (Priority Area 4) and to ensure integrated protected areas have been designated in its territory. The Danube Delta forms the richest biodiversity area of Europe. There are also important natural resources utilized by industry, agriculture, transport and used for energy production and also for recreation. One of the most unique natural resources is water and the water-related habitat of the basin, therefore the preservation of its good quality is essential.

8th There are, however, significant threats which jeopardize the quality of Steering Group water deriving/resulting from human activities. Several of the waters meeting of water are affected by eutrophication and suffer from untreated wastewater quality priority loads or hazardous substances. Structural man-made changes area in influence aquatic ecosystem functions and, moreover, emissions from Bratislava pollutants deteriorate groundwater quality.

6 7 RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Key Challenges and Approach

Managing water quality 3) stimulating steps to investigate the potential risk of abandoned salt mine in Solotvyno, Ukraine; Since the Water Framework Directive came into force in 2000 the EU 4) fostering the set up of projects consortiums and supporting countries are obliged to report on the steps to be taken to reach and the development of project proposals (involving non-EU to preserve good status of the waters. To implement the objectives – countries into the projects). set in the Water Framework Directive – and to achieve good status of waters in Danube River basin-wide scale, it is crucial to involve the accession and non-EU countries in the implementation process as well. Strenghthening sub-basin cooperation

The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River In the Danube River Basin there are four sub-basins with special (ICPDR) is one of the platforms for the implementation of joint efforts importance: in the Danube River Basin wide scale. This international organisation  the Tisza River basin, committed itself to developing the Danube River Basin Management  the Sava River Basin, Plan including measures from both EU and non-EU countries to  the Prut River Basin, and the accomplish goals set in the Water Framework Directive. The EUSDR  Danube Delta. ‘water quality’ priority area works in close cooperation with the ICPDR to manage joint objectives. Strenghtening cooperation in the Tisza River Basin

Involvement of accession The Tisza River Basin is the largest sub-basin of the Danube watershed. and non-EU countries in the process The Tisza River is the longest tributary of the Danube (966 km), and drains an area of 157,186 km² in five countries: Slovakia, Ukraine, ‘Water quality’ priority area “To restore and maintain the quality of Hungary, Romania and Serbia. waters” of the EUSDR emphasizes the importance of the involvement of accession/candidate and non-EU countries in the basin-wide work There is a long history of cooperation in the Tisza River Basin. The and has already valuable achievements in the following fields of Tisza countries signed the Agreement on the protection of the Tisza activities: and its tributaries in 19862 and also established the Tisza Forum to 1) supporting joint efforts in sub-basins – e.g. strengthening address flood issues in 2000. the Tisza River Basin cooperation (Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Serbia); In December 2004, at the first ministerial meeting of the ICPDR, ministers 2) alignment of funding – supporting Ukraine in exploring funds and high-level representatives of the five Tisza countries signed the to modernize waste water treatment facilities in four cities of 2 Convention on measures to combat pollution of the Tisza River and its tributaries, the basin; adoptedin Szeged in 1986

8 9 RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Key Challenges and Approach

The Tisza Group countries following the identification of the key water management issues developed an integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan with political endorsement at a ministerial meeting in 2011.3

Since 2013 activities related to the Tisza river cooperation have been ongoing with the assistance of the ’water quality’ Priority Area of the Danube Strategy. To manage national activities as well as to contribute

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LEGEND Tisza River Sub-basin Danube River Basin District (DRBD) Tisza and Danube Tributaries (river basins larger than 1,000 km²) Lake water bodies (surface area > 10 km²) Cities 10,000-50,000 inhabitants CitiesNational 50,000-100,000 borders inhabitants Cities 100,000-250,000 inhabitants Cities 250,000-1,000,000 inhabitants Key Challenges and Approach

The opening ceremony of the Tisza Office in Szolnok, Hungary (2014)

The EUSDR ’water quality’ priority area facilitates the ICPDR Tisza Group activities jointly with the ICPDR Permanent Secretariat and prepared the project proposal JOINTISZA, which had been successfully approved in 2016 and is financed by the Danube Transnational Programme since January 2017.

Cooperation in the Sava, Prut and Danube Delta sub-basins

The four riparian countries of the Sava River basin - Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Republic of Croatia and Republic of Slovenia signed a “Letter of Intent” in 2001 on launching the joint activities regarding the Sava River and its tributaries, which was signed in Sarajevo (B&H) on November 29, 2001, by the ministers of foreign affairs of the four countries. In 2002 the Sava countries signed the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin (FASRB), which integrated all aspects of the water resources

management. The countries established the (joint) International Sava River Sava in Slovenia 12 RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Key Challenges and Approach

River Basin Commission (ISRBC) for the implementation of the FASRB, with the legal status of an international organization. The permanent Secretariat of the Sava Commission started to work on January 2006.4

The water quality priority area works in close cooperation with the Sava Commission and an important action in relation to the EUSDR is the establishment and completion of the SavaGIS, which was achieved in the frame of the ISRBC.

With regard to the Prut River and Danube Delta, specific projects are facilitating the work and progress. The project “Environmental protection of international river basins (EPIRB)” started in 2012. The project is funded by the EU (ENPI) and focuses on the Prut River as a pilot area aiming at developing a joint River Basin Management Plan according to the EU WFD requirements with the involvement of Ukraine and Moldova and in close exchange with the ICPDR.

4 http://www.savacommission.org/

Prut River and waterfall Probiy in Ukraine Danube delta, Romania

In the Danube Delta, a project, managed by the ICPDR, financed by the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) is focusing on improving cross-border cooperation and building capacities for introducing a river basin approach for the management of natural resources in the Danube Delta Region. The draft Danube Delta Analysis Report (DDAR), including the evaluation of important water management issues of the region, is finalised.

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COORDINATING WATER QUALITY ISSUES

Alignment of funding

One of the most important tasks is to facilitate the alignment of funding. The aim is to assist the improvement of water quality by incorporating the tasks/standards of the EUSDR to the documents and operational programs of the European Structural and Investment Funds as well as other financing frameworks.

The EUSDR contributed to facilitating the alignment of funding in a structured and systematic way and made effective actions to embed the priority interventions to the EU programs of the “2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework”.

Aerial view The priority area jointly with other priority areas led by Hungary of storage tanks in organised Stakeholder Conferences in November 2015 as well as in May sewage water 2017, where financing programmes were demonstrated/represented to treatment plant a wide range of interested stakeholders. Within the framework of the conferences, several funding possibility have been introduced, among others the Danube Transnational Programme, Horizon 2020 and LIFE. In case of four Transcarpathian cities (Mukachevo, Uzghorod, Hust The event also provided a platform for stakeholders for cooperation and Bereghovo) information was obtained about outdated and/or and networking for the sake of establishing future consortiums. improperly operating wastewater treatment plants directly polluting the tributaries of the Tisza River. The plants were built in the Soviet era with outdated technology and limited capacities. Since the amount Exploring funds to modernize wastewater treatment of wastewater is measured neither at the wastewater treatment in four Ukrainian cities of the Danube River basin plant, nor at any other parts of the networks, the volume of sewage loading can be estimated only. Following the workshop organized by Continuous exchange of data, early warning mechanisms and the EUSDR Hungarian National Coordinator in June 2015 and with his discussion of problems are at place and ongoing in all bilateral assistance, the related cities applied in February 2016 for a long term water committees of Hungary and also operating within the Danube preferential European Investment Bank (EIB) loan that was awarded Transnational Monitoring Network. by the Ukrainian government in the amount of 400 million EUR. Also,

16 17 RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Coordinating Water Quality Issues

Ukrainian partners presented a project package to create the pre- National Coordinator requested Hungarian members of the European feasibility study of wastewater treatment plants reconstruction that Parliament to enquire after the possible financial sources to be mobilized the Danube Strategy ’water quality’ priority area high level managing for assessing the environmental risk in Solotvyno Ukraine. Mr Johannes group (the Steering Group) awarded with a letter of recommendation Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement in September 2015. As a result, an EUSDR START project CleanRiver – Negotiations, in his answer, highlighted the EU Civil Protection Mechanism creation of feasibility study for improvement of wastewater treatment as well as the Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENI CBC Programme facilities in Ukraine was implemented in 2016. besides the importance of effectively utilizing the framework of the EUSDR.

Stimulating steps to investigate the potential risk As a result, a joint letter was sent to the European Commissioner for of abandoned salt mine in Solotvyno, Ukraine Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management to ask for an EU expert risks and threats assessment study. Considering the high impact and urgency One example wherein immediate action was taken to alert in case of of the situation, Commissioner Stylianides declared in February 2016 potential water quality problems in the Danube basin was the case of that the Commission will organise a fact-finding mission composed of the Solotvyno salt mines in Ukraine. EU experts, which then took place in September 2016.

After a fact-finding mission in summer 2015, the EUSDR Hungarian Based on the findings of the fact-finding mission a project proposal National Coordinator found that it is of mutual interest to improve is currently under preparation to be submitted in September 2017 for the emergency in the area of salt mines taken into account the the Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine European Neighbourhood uncontrolled development of crisis management of the region. The Instrument Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020.

Solotvyno, Ukraine: Start of the ecological disaster – sinkhole in the territory of an abandoned mine, which previously mined salt

18 19 RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Project Support

PROJECT SUPPORT Supporting the development of strategic project issues Fostering the set up of project consortiums It is also an important goal of the EUSDR ’water quality’ priority area Nearly 20 Danube basin water-related projects and ideas were to assist in the development of project proposals with basin-wide introduced into the framework of the high level working group of relevance. water quality priorty area (Steering Group meetings) between the years of 2013-2017. Two main topics are of strategic importance for the priority area, one dealing with the sediment balance of the Danube River The Danube Strategy organized workshops and stakeholder (DanubeSediment project), and another dealing with sub-basin – Tisza conferences to disseminate knowledge related to available funds – integration issues (JOINTISZA project). and financial possibilities. The stakeholder conferences on European funding opportunities, held in November 2015 and May 2017 in The lead partners together with the involved Danube countries, the Budapest, aimed at facilitation of networking and available financial ICPDR and EUSDR PA4 made big efforts to develop successful project possibilities for project generation and implementation in the Danube proposals. Thanks to the joint efforts both projects have been selected basin. The conferences also served as a networking platform to by the Danube Transnational Programme for funding in 2016 and potential project partners. started their activities in January 2017.

PA4 was active in selecting the projects for Seed Money Facility JOINTISZA START Danube Region Project Fund under the EUSDR and voted the kick-off meeting, best projects to be funded in 2014 and 2015 - STAWA (Towards the 1-2 March 2017, assessment of ecological status of water bodies in the Sava River Szentendre Basin); REWATER (Revitalization of Eutrophic Waters for Different Degrees of Pollution and the Size of Water Areas); CleanRiver (Creation of feasibility study for improvement of wastewater treatment facilities in Ukraine) and project SANDANUBE (Sustainable sanitation in small settlements of the Danube Region). These projects were selected for START support.

PA4 was also supportive in 2016-2017 for proposals to be set up for the Danube Strategic Project Fund (DSPF) and forwarded 4 project proposals to be funded. Currently we are waiting for a DSPF decision on which project will obtain funding.

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The DanubeSediment project’s (entitled the “Danube Sediment Man- agement – Restoration of the Sediment Balance inthe Danube River”) major objective is to review the current status of the sediment regime of the Danube, including the inputs of major tributaries. It also aims The little to analyse pressures and impacts, assess the potential for restoration egret flying over of sediment balance and propose actions to be taken in order to im- the River Danube prove the sediment continuum and river morpho-dynamics along the at Zemun Danube. The project has strong EUSDR relevance and fully supports in the Belgrade, the implementation of the EUSDR PA4 Action Plan, which is one of the Serbia outputs of the Strategy approach.

The Danube Sediment project contributes to the implementation of relevant EU legislations. The project ensures better embedding of the Danube River Basin Management Plan. Through contributing to a flood risk management planning into the River Basin Management reduction of floodrisks, the link to the Danube Flood Risk Management planning process and also encourages the involvement of relevant Plan and to the EU Floods Directive (Directive 2007/60/EC) is also ensured. sectors (such as flood risk management, water resource management, urbanhydrology management, drought management) and interested Nine Danube countries are participating in the project and among the stakeholders. In the long run the project will initiate the change of project partners relevant stakeholders are also contributing to the better contribution to the implementation of the Flood Risk Directive successful implementation of the main objective. The project Lead and Water Framework Directive. Partner institution is situated in Hungary. The JOINTISZA project contributes to the implementation of the EUSDR Further information is available in the following website: http://www. Action Plan aiming at strengthening cooperation in the Tisza River interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/danubesediment Basin as well as to update the Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan. The project activities ensure the continuation of investments and The JOINTISZA project (entitled “Strengthening cooperation between support the information collection systems already developed by the river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR). the status of waters of the Tisza River Basin”) focuses on interactions of two key aspects, the river basin management and flood protection, All countries of the Tisza River Basin are participating in the project and taking into account the relevant stakeholders who play a fundamental among the project partners several organisations with transboundary role in the Tisza River Basin Management planning process. The relevance are involved. The ICPDR participates as a project partner in main aim of the project is to further improve the integration of the the project. The project Lead Partner institution is situated in Hungary. water management and flood risk prevention planning and actions Further information is available in the following website: in the next River Basin Management planning cycle, in line with the http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/jointisza.

22 23 RESTORING AND MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF WATERS Capitalization  Synergies with other regional initiatives

CAPITALIZATION Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Ukraine). Within the framework of the EUSDR Annual Forum, in 2015 Beside the above mentioned JOINTISZA and DanubeSediment projects, a Joint Declaration was signed between ICPDR Tisza Group and the other DTP projects, namely CAMARO-D and DriDanube belong to the Carpathian Convention during a workshop organised by the EUSDR DTP Capitalisation Thematic Pole 4: Water Management that was priority area on ’water quality’. The declaration – among others – aims launched in January 2017 and being co-cordinated by EUSDR PA4. to reinforce cooperation especially in the Tisza sub-basin, to cooperate Networking with further projects (STREAM, DANUBEparksCONNECTED, in the field of education and awareness raising (on the level of the FramWat, DREAM, Sturgeon 2020) in the frame of capitalization is local communities) and to strengthen the relationship between the under progress as well. sustainable development of the Carpathian Mountains and the Tisza river basin management. Achieving these objectives and further elaborating the topics of the future enhanced cooperation are part of our mutual intentions to develop and implement joint, coordinated SYNERGIES WITH OTHER and complementary activities and projects. REGIONAL INITIATIVES In 2016 a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Carpathian Convention and the EUSDR PA4 to ensure the coordination Joint cooperation with the ICPDR of all relevant activities of the two organisations.

Cooperation with international organisations operating in water Integrated quality-related topics has crucial relevance in the working process of Workshop during the the EUSDR. As part of the implementation of the Danube River Basin 4th Annual Management Plan, one of the main goals of the EUSDR a ‘Joint Paper Forum of the EUSDR on Cooperation and Synergy for the EUSDR Implementation’ has been in Ulm (2015) developed outlining the main fields of joint activities between the ICPDR and EUSDR.

Collaboration with the UNEP Carpathian Convention

The UNEP Carpathian Convention is a sub-regional treaty to foster the sustainable development and the protection of the Carpathian region. The Convention was signed by seven Carpathian States (Czech

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Cooperation with relevant international MY NOTES organisations

The water quality management team also places emphasis on involving other international organisations in the overall work to avoid over- laps and utilize in the most efficient way the results achieved within the framework of those organisations. As a result, the Sava Commission, the Global Water Partnership – South East Europe branch, the Regional Environmental Forum as well as the World Wide Found for Nature are observers of the relevant work and are participating in the management meetings.

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Danube Region Strategy, Priority Area 4 “To restore and maintain the quality of waters”

www.danubewaterquality.eu [email protected]

Balázs Horváth Vladimir Novak Hungarian coordinator Slovakian coordinator

[email protected] [email protected] DIRECTORATE GENERAL MINISTRY OF WATER MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENT OF THE HUNGARY SLOVAK REPUBLIC

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