Alternative treaty name

Agreement Concerning the Niger River Commission and the Navigation and Transport on the River Niger, Niamey

Data entry notes

Superseded by Convention Creating the Niger Basin Authority; TFDD Basin: Niger

URL to text of IEA

587 UNTS 19

Possible sources (additional)

FAO LEGISLATIVE STUDY - 61, #4; RS-XI:5648; SMTFE-1; http://mgd.nacse.org/cgi-bin/qml2.0/watertreaty/intl_treaties.qml?qml_screen=full&TN=132; Burhenne, Rummel-Bulska, Hohmann

Date IEA was adopted

1964-11-25

Adoption year

1964

Place IEA was adopted

Niamey

Date IEA entered into force

1966-04-12

Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc)

Multilateral (3 or more governments)

Agreement type level 3

Agreement

Source for e (environmental) code

Text: Art.12: ... They undertake further to abstain from carrying out on the portion of the River, its tributaries and sub-tributaries subject to their jurisdiction any works likely to pollute the waters, or any modification likely to affect biological characteristics of its fauna and flora, without adequate notice to, and prior consultation with, the Commission.

Text used for e (environmental) coding

Text: Art.12: ... They undertake further to abstain from carrying out on the portion of the River, its tributaries and sub-tributaries subject to their jurisdiction any works likely to pollute the waters, or any modification likely to affect biological characteristics of its fauna and flora, without adequate notice to, and prior consultation with, the Commission.

Words used to code as environmental

water/ waters/commission/fauna/flora/pollut/river

Lineage

Niger Basin

Sequence in lineage

200.000

Secretariat

Niger Basin Authority

Version

2007.10

Inclusion auto-generated

MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Subject

Freshwater