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Convention on cooperation for the protection and sustainable use of the Danube River (Danube River protection Convention) with Annexes and Declaration.

Country/Territory
Austria
Document type
Regulation
Date
1998
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Bundesgesetzblatt für die Republik Österreich, Part III, No. 139, 16 September 1998, pp. 1045-1087.
Subject
Water
Keyword
Inland waters Freshwater pollution Pollution control
Geographical area
Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Western Europe
Abstract

The Austrian Parliament has ratified the Convention on cooperation for the protection and sustainable use of the Danube River (Danube River Protection Convention), signed on June 29 1994, in Sofia, Bulgaria, by eleven of the Danube Riparian States – Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine – and the European Community, and duly came into force in October 1998, when it was ratified by the ninth signatory.

Full text
German
Website
www.ris.bka.gv.at