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Treaty on the Rio de la Plata Basin

Document type
Multilateral
Field of application
Regional/restricted
Date
Apr 23, 1969
Source
IUCN (ID: TRE-001020)
Title (French)

Traité du Bassin du Rio de la Plata

Title (Spanish)

Tratado de la Cuenca del Plata

Title (Other)

Rio de la Plata Vertrag

Place of adoption
Brasilia
Depository
Brazil
Language
Spanish, Portuguese
Entry into force
Aug 14, 1970
Subject
Water, Land & soil, Wild species & ecosystems
Keyword
Data collection/reporting Freshwater resources management River basin institution Monitoring Navigation Basin/catchment/watershed International relations/cooperation
Geographical area
North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Amazonia, South America, Latin America and the Caribbean
Basin
Plata
Abstract

Objective: To promote the harmonious development and physical integration of the Plata River Basin and its areas of influence.

Summary of provisions: The Contracting Parties undertake to promote the identification of areas of common interest, to conduct studies, programs and works and to formulate legal instruments to, inter alia, facilitate navigation, promote the rational use of water resources and preserve animal and plant life (art.1). Collective action by the Parties must take place without prejudicing projects and undertakings that the Parties decide to implement within their own territories, in accordance to international law and good practice between neighbouring and friendly countries (art.5).

Institutional mechanisms: The Ministers of the Foreign Affairs are to meet once a year inter alia to set the basic directives of a common policy, evaluate its results and direct the activities of the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee (art. 2). This Committee is the permanent organ of the Basin, responsible for promoting, co-ordinating and following the development of multinational activities related to the integrated development of the Plata Basin (art.3).

(Source: IUCN ELC, 08.2005)

Full text
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Website
www.cicplata.org

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Argentina
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Brazil
Paraguay
Uruguay

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