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Exchange of letters constituting an agreement concerning German-French-Luxembourg cooperation in the frontier areas

Document type
Multilateral
Field of application
Date
Oct 26, 2009
Source
IUCN (ID: TRE-153255)
Language
English
Subject
Water
Keyword
Inland waters International agreement-text Basin/catchment/watershed
Geographical area
Alps, Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Western Europe, Europe, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Benelux, European Union Countries
Basin
Rhine
Abstract

The Agreement concerns German-French-Luxembourg cooperation in the form of activities of common interest, particularly in the administrative, technical, social, economic and cultural fields in the following frontier areas listed in article 2: Saarland; areas in Land Rhineland-Palatinate - the Trier and Westpfalz region's and Landkreis Birkenfeld; the Departments of Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Vosges; the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The implementation of such cooperation shall be entrusted to an Intergovernmental Commission and a Regional Commission, whose task will be to facilitate the examination of contiguity problems in the frontier areas. In particular, the Intergovernmental Commission shall (a) deal with the general aspects of cooperation questions; (b) formulate recommendations to the Contracting Parties and, when appropriate, prepare draft agreements. The Regional Commission shall (a) deal with the regional aspects of cooperation questions; (b) report to the Intergovernmental Commission and, when necessary, (c) submit recommendations to it. According to the provisions of article 7 the Agreement shall not affect the activities of bodies which have been or may be established under international agreements. The frontier areas to which the Agreement applies are shown in the map annexed thereto.

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