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Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood Risk Management Measures & Links to EU WFD Zagreb, Croatia 11 – 12 November 2015 Manuscript completed: February 2016 Publishing date: April 2016 Prepared by: ISRBC Secretariat ii Abstract The International Sava River Basin Commission The workshop objectives were to assess, discuss, (ISRBC) organized this Workshop on Flood and inform participants on policies and practices Risk Management measures & links to EU WFD in the Danube River and Sava River basins jointly with the United Nations Educational, concerning: (1) flood risk management planning, Scientific and Cultural Organization – UNESCO prevention and preparedness in the context Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in of existing policy and regulatory frameworks, Europe, Venice (UNESCO Venice Office); the including flood forecasting and warning systems, World Meteorological Organization (WMO); the awareness raising and capacity building, (2) International Commission for the Protection of Emergency response and recovery in the context the Danube River (ICPDR). The workshop was held of flood defense measures, lessons learned from on 11-12 November 2015 at the Sheraton Zagreb May 2014 floods on mutual assistance, mitigation Hotel, Kneza Borne 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. and recovery, (3) Integrating flood risk reduction The workshop was coordinated with ISRBC and Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRM) Permanent Expert Group for Flood Prevention. into a basin wide approach, in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and This capacity-building workshop was dedicated also taking into consideration decision making to flood risk management measures and processes and economic and financial aspects. addressed interests and needs of a broad range of participants including representatives of Observations and insights provided during the institutions and organizations from the session presentations and subsequent group Danube River Basin, and in particular from the discussions were documented by the rapporteurs Sava River Basin, involved in integrated flood and are included in this report. risk management, policy and decision makers at the national and international level, authorities dealing with water and flood management, the civil protection sector and experts in the field of floods. iii Foreword The International Sava River Basin Commission in We hope that, like the workshop itself, these cooperation with the United Nations Educational, proceedings will draw the interest of the many Scientific and Cultural Organization - Regional stakeholders engaged with flood risk management Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice; in the Danube and, in particular, the Sava River the World Meteorological Organization; the basin. We believe that collaborating in sharing International Commission for the Protection of flood risk information among the Sava River the Danube River - organized and conducted a Basin countries will strengthen their cooperation Workshop on Flood Risk Management measures and allow them to leverage limited resources & links to EU WFD at the Sheraton Zagreb Hotel, and increase security of living in the whole area. Kneza Borne 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, on 11-12 The many scientific and technical interactions November 2015. participants developed during the workshop are already a fantastic demonstration of the benefits The organizers have decided to publish the such collaboration and cooperation can bring. proceedings of the workshop to further share the knowledge and practical experiences presented at the workshop and to summarize the significant insights and observations made by the participants. These proceedings provide an overview of the state of knowledge and practices in flood hazard assessment related to extreme natural events risk. They also include references and electronic links to information sources presented and discussed during the workshop. In particular, all the slides presented can be viewed at the public web page: http://savacommission.org/event_detail/0/0/349/2. Dejan Komatina International Sava River Basin Commission Philippe Pypaert UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice Tommaso Abrate World Meteorological Organization, Climate and Water Department Raimund Mair International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River iv Acknowledgment The concept, planning and execution of this workshop, and the preparation of these proceedings were achieved by the organizing committee composed of the officials of the Secretariat of ISRBC, as well as UNESCO Venice Office, WMO and ICPDR. The organizing committee consisted of: Dejan Komatina, Dragan Zeljko, Ana Marinić, Mirza Sarač, Philippe Pypaert, Tommaso Abrate, Raimund Mair, Renata Fürt, Ivan Milovanović and Tomislav Majerović. Many of the organizing committee members were also presenters and moderators of group discussions. The organizers are grateful for the support provided by Adrian Slob, the overall workshop moderator, and by the following INVITED PRESENTERS/SPEAKERS AND rapporteurs OF group discussions: moderators OF group discussions: Martina Egedušević Firas Al-Janabi Jovanka Ignjatović Marijan Babić Esena Kupusović Marina Babić-Mladenović Radovanka Pavlović Maria Berglund Irma Popović Dujmović Lucia Bernal Saukkonen Petra Remeta Anna Cestari Žana Topalović Nenad Đukić Tatjana Vujnović Zoran Đuroković Darko Janjić Igor Liška Dijana Oskoruš Sašo Petan Almir Prljača Enes Šeperović Luka Štravs v Event photos Opening of the Workshop Plenary session Group discussion Group discussion Group discussion vi Acronyms and abbreviations APSFR Areas of Potential Significant Flood Risk ARSO Slovenian Environment Agency AVP SAVA Sava River Watershed Agency, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina CBA Cost Benefit Analysis DHMZ Meteorological and Hydrological Service of the Republic of Croatia DRBD Danube River Basin District DHI Danish Hydrological Institute EC European Commission EFD EU Floods Directive (Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks) EU European Union FASRB Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin FFWS Flood Forecasting and Warning System FRM Flood Risk Management FRMP Flood Risk Management Plan GIS Geographical Information System HIS Hydrological Information System HFS Hydrological Forecasting System ICPDR International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community IPA Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ISO International Organization for Standardization ISRBC International Sava River Basin Commission NWRM Natural Water Retention Measures PFRA Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment RBM River Basin Management RBMP River Basin Management Plan RHMZRS Republic Hydro-Meteorological Service of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina SRB Sava River Basin UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Venice Office - Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice) WB World Bank WFD EU Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy) WaterML Markup Language - standard information model for the representation of water observations data WBIF Western Balkans Investment Framework WMO World Meteorological Organization vii Table of contents ABSTRACT ii FOREWORD iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iv EVENT PHOTOS v AcronYMS AND abbreviations vi 1. INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 Background to the Workshop on Flood Risk Management Measures and Links to EU WFD 3 1.2 Topics 4 1.3 Results and conclusions 4 1.4 Workshop papers 7 2. SESSION I - FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT PLANNING, PREVENTION & PREPAREDNESS 8 2.1 Agenda items overview 9 2.2 Overview