Alternative treaty name

Convention Creating the Niger Basin Authority and Protocol Relating to the Development Fund of the Niger Basin

Data entry notes

The 1964 Niger River Commission was reorganized in 1980 as the nine-member Niger Basin Authority; This Convention supersedes the agreement signed in Niamey in Nov 1964 as amended in Niamey in Feb 1968 and June 1973 and in Lagos in Jan 1979; TFDD Basin: Niger

URL to text of IEA

http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/ssatp/Resources/HTML/legal_review/Annexes/Annexes%20VII/Annexe%20VII-36.pdf

Possible sources (additional)

ECOLEX-2700; SMTFE-2; http://mgd.nacse.org/cgi-bin/qml2.0/watertreaty/intl_treaties.qml?qml_screen=full&TN=139; Burhenne, Rummel-Bulska, UNEP96, Hohmann; tre-1110.txt; reg-111.txt

Date IEA was adopted

1980-11-21

Adoption year

1980

Place IEA was adopted

Faranah

Date IEA entered into force

1982-12-03

Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc)

Multilateral (3 or more governments)

Agreement type level 3

Convention

Source for e (environmental) code

Text: Art.3.1.The aim of the Authority is to promote the co-operation among member States and to ensure an integrated development of the Niger Basin in all fields, by developing its resources particularly in the fields of energy, water resources, agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and fisheries, forestry and forestry exploitation, transport, communications and industry.

Text used for e (environmental) coding

Text: Art.3.1.The aim of the Authority is to promote the co-operation among member States and to ensure an integrated development of the Niger Basin in all fields, by developing its resources particularly in the fields of energy, water resources, agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and fisheries, forestry and forestry exploitation, transport, communications and industry.

Words used to code as environmental

water/agricult/animal/energy/fish/forest

Lineage

Niger Basin

Sequence in lineage

300.000

Secretariat

Niger Basin Authority

Version

2007.10

Inclusion auto-generated

MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Subject

Freshwater