Tisar 2007

Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Slovakia and Hungary share the beauties of the Tisza River Basin and face also problems related to water supply, flooding, droughts, landslides and erosion in the uplands, accidental pollution by mining activities as well as agricultural pollution. To address these and other environmental problems, cooperation between the five riparian countries is essential.

Summary of the Project

Objectives

One of the key elements of the EU WFD is to ensure that all water meets `good status` by 2015. The first step towards the objective is to create a River Basin Management Plan by 2009. The countries may supplement the River Basin Management Plan with more detailed programmes and management planes for sub-basin. On this basis, the Tisza countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2004 to work together in the frame of the ICPDR aiming at to produce a sub-basin level Tisza River Basin Management Plan by 2009. This Plan will also integrate issues on flood management. The first step is the preparation of the Tisza Analysis Report by 2007, which includes an overall characterisation of the basin, an analysis of anthropogenic pressures and impacts as well as flood risk mapping. Interaction between quality and quantity elements and their effect on the aquatic ecosystem will also be highlighted and emphasis will be taken to develop flood prevention and risk assessment strategy. The objectiveis to contribute to the preparation of the basis of the further Tisza River Basin Management Plan, which planned to be completed in the frame of a multi-national project "Establishment for Mechanisms for Integrated Land and Water Management in the Tisza River Basin" mainly co-financed by UNDP-GEF. The ICPDR is to ensure consistency of the project with its own work and integration of the results in the preparation of a wider Danube River Basin Management Plan.

Actions

Development of the Tisza Analysis Report and contribution to the preparation of the Tisza River Basin Management Plan
Preparation of GIS for the Tisza River Sub Basin
Development of Flood Management Strategy and Action Plans

Development of the Tisza Analysis Report and contribution to the preparation of the Tisza River Basin Management Plan: three parts of the analysis report will be prepared (1) Characterization, (2) Water Quality report and the (3) Cross cutting issues. The report will be coordinated by the country representatives together with the experts. A special workshop will be organised to discuss the key water management issues for the Tisza River Basin.

Preparation of GIS for the Tisza River Sub Basin: the two actions, ' Preparation of GIS database for the Tisza River Sub Basin' and ' development of Maps for the Tisza Analysis report' will be carried out. The Tisza database is an integrated part of the Danube database as well as to the national database. The GIS database will be fully compliant with the EU WISE system.

Development of Flood Management Strategy and Action Plans: Emphasise is on the preparation of the study on Water Quantity and Flood Management issues in the Tisza River Basin. The study will discuss issues on water resources and water demand as well as key water quantity management issues. The Flood Management Strategy is planned to be a part of the Tisza Analysis Report as well as a step toward the future River Basin Management Plan.

It will be crucial to ensure the cooperation between the project participants, the dissemination of the results to the public as well as the active involvement of the stakeholders.

Financial contribution by the EU for 2007-2008: 150 000 EUR

Celebrating the Tisza River in frame of the Danube Day 2007

29 June 2007: In the frame of Danube Day (Celebrating Danube Cultures), Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine call the attention/introduce the assets of the Tisza River Sub-basin by preparing leaflets, media materials

Tisza River Basin a European Model for Ministerial Action (Belgrade Ministerial Conference)

11 October 2007: In the frame of the `Environment for Europe` - Sixth Ministerial Conference` the results of the Preliminary Analysis of the Tisza River Basin – 2007 were introduced in the frame of a side event – press conference.

Maps

Maps about the Tisza River Basin are now under development based on the ICPDR DanubeGIS. The maps are harmonized with the report 'Preliminary Analysis of the Tisza River Basin – 2007' and aim to illustrate the main characteristics of the basin.

List of Tisza River Basin related maps:

Tisza River Basin - Overview
Topography and relief
Protected areas
Land uses
Surface water bodies identified
Heavily Modified Water Bodies
Surfacewater Monitoring
Groundwater Monitoring
Risk assessment related to hydromorphological alteration
Risk assessment related to nutrient pollution,
Risk assessment related to organic pollution
Risk assessment related to hazardous substances
Groundwater bodies

IMPORTANT NEWS

Stakeholder Involvement – Public Participation

March 2008: The Analysis of the Tisza River Basin is now available below for consultation by the public for six months.
The summary of comments will be made available together with the feedback on the comments by the end of 2008.

2007-10-05

Summary Report of the Tisza River Basin Analysis 2007 (PDF, 2.3MB)

Summary Report - A call for action

2007-10-10

Fact Sheet: ICPDR and Tisza Group (PDF, 46.3KB)

2008-03-19

Analysis of the Tisza River Basin 2007 (PDF, 1.2MB)

Initial step toward the Tisza River Basin Management Plan – 2009

2008-03-19

Annexes to the Tisza River Basin Analysis 2007 (PDF, 3.8MB)

Memorandum of Understanding, Bilateral river committees, International agreements, The competent authorities for WFD implementation, Public Participation (projects and list of NGOs), Construction of the Danube-Tisza-Danube Canal System, Reservoirs, List of surface waters bodies evaluated in Part...